[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v39

[Bill Nottingham]

Michal Schmidt (mschmidt at redhat.com) said: 
> On 01/25/2012 03:57 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Wed, 25.01.12 11:11, Jan Engelhardt (jengelh at medozas.de) wrote:
> >>I would actually prefer if it wrote that to the current tty that
> >>invoked the start action, rather than the console which is stowed
> >>away in a deep cellar...
> >
> >We explicitly want to avoid that services are entirely isolated from the
> >user session they are started from. Running a service with the tty of
> >the user running the command would be the absolute opposite of
> >"isolated".
> 
> We could make "systemctl start ..." dump a few of the service's
> lines from the journal before exiting.

At that point you're then trying to define heuristics about what the proper
value for 'a few' is, and then you're guaranteed to get it wrong for some
set of services. Not sure it's worth the effort.

Bill