[systemd-devel] Masking .network files

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, this is a possibility.

-t