[systemd-devel] Masking .network files

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 01:12:45 +0200
Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:

> So in general "masking" .network files (in the sense applied to unit
> files) does not make much sense, and will probably not behave as you
> would expect from knowing unit files. We may very well want to change
> this in networkd, but need to think a bit about precisely how (the
> whole logic is quite different from unit files, so copying the same
> behavior doesn't quite work I think).

My question is much simpler: why are empty .network files and files with an
empty [Match] section treated equally? Clearly, empty files still "do
something".

AFAIU networkd compiles a list of all .network "units" before applying their
settings, so one can check that a file is empty and kick it off the list, no?

But please note that I haven't looked at the code in detail, so feel free to
ignore me if the above makes no sense.

Best,
L.

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