[systemd-devel] Enlightenment and systemd user session.

Kok, Auke-jan H auke-jan.h.kok at intel.com
Mon Mar 18 12:33:32 PDT 2013


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Cedric BAIL <cedric.bail at free.fr> wrote:
>    As both of those process start visible application that should not
> be killed on a restart of the initialization daemon carelessly, they
> do have the same issue as Enlightenment.
>
>    Something that would be nice is if we could instruct systemd about
> those child process somehow. Even better would be, if possible, a
> library to share the cgroup and all that infrastructure that systemd
> use when setting up a process before doing exec. That could have a
> simple API with just one function that could receive a token coming
> from a .desktop or something like that. Just a thought.

We can solve this by implementing a generator that can handle
traditional .desktop files and treat them as "oneshot" services, and
then asking systemd to start them by either DBus or just using
`systemctl`.

Auke


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