[systemd-devel] changing the "mount --make-shared /" default

[Jake Edge]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:59:19 -0500 Colin Walters wrote:

> > Yes, that's a way to programmatically do it on an as-needed basis,
> > which is great, thanks. But what I was looking for was a way to
> > tell systemd to change the default back to private at boot time as
> > Lennart suggested in the commit. 
> 
> That has global system ramifications.  

Sure.  Of course, the original change to shared did too :)

> It's somewhat unfortunate that
> systemd overrides the kernel, but going forward programs can (at the
> moment) assume under systemd that it's shared, and make things private
> as necessary.  If there were a configuration toggle, programs would
> have to cope with both cases.  Though maybe realistically they
> already have to if Upstart doesn't do the same thing.

It seems a little unfortunate that programs have to "know" what init
system they are running under.  Even if Upstart does change the kernel
default (I have no idea one way or the other), sysvinit or some other
init probably doesn't.  Any program that wants to work correctly
"everywhere" needs to set the expected behavior, I guess, even those
that are currently expecting to find shared mounts.  And that probably
was true with or without the change Lennart made ...

jake

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