[systemd-devel] [PATCH] allow explicit stdout/stderr configuration for SysV services

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 01.03.11 23:39, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> >
> > if we merge this, is SysVConsole still useful then? Shouldn't we kill
> > that then?
> >
> 
> Killing existing option is not easy. Good package manager will try to
> reexec systemd and it will pass no more existing option to new
> instance which will choke on this and basically become no more
> operational.
> 
> May be it should not be that strict, at least when it is known to
> re-execute itself.

Yupp, that is a good point. A patch should probably cover that option
are ignored when passed.

Lennart

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