[systemd-devel] runtime directories for services vs. tmpfiles

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:28:12PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 07/16/2013 06:26 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >I discussed this a bit more with Kay on the phone. Here's what we'd propose:
> >
> >I'd be very conservative regarding adding full tmpfiles support into
> >unit files directly. Instead, I'd suggest adding two very minimal, very
> >specific new unit file settings:
> >
> >RuntimeDirectory=
> >RuntimeDirectoyMode=
> 
> What exactly are we trying to solve here which should not be fixed
> upstream in the daemons themselves?
It was written in the part you removed:

Putting this all together we'd recommend:
a) in the best case make your daemon create all runtime dirs as
   necessary
b) if that's not possible (for example, due to privs), then use
   RuntimeDirectory= instead.
...

Zbyszek
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