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

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:41:08PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 07/16/2013 07:34 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:28 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> ><johannbg at gmail.com> 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?
> >Stuff that uses User= cannot be fixed in the daemon itself, at the
> >time it runs, systemd itself has already taken away the privileges to
> >create these directories.
> 
> We increase unit complexity with each option we add so I would
> suggest unless it's absolutely necessary to just stick with just
> tmpfiles to handle this.

  I second Jóhann.  As a packager, I never had problems with separate
configuration of runtime dir. Additionally, runtime dirs hardly need
customizations by admin.  It's not worth exposing them in unit file.


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