[systemd-devel] systemctl preset and chkconfig

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 26.08.14 16:37, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26.08.14 16:29, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >> >> I have to say tho', I'm surprised this is something implemented in PID1.
> >> >> I hadn't looked at the code, but I thought (well assumed) "systemctl
> >> >> preset" was actually implemented on the client side. I guess it's true
> >> >> what they say about "assume"... :p
> >> >
> >> > Well, it's actually implemented on both sides (we link the same code
> >> > into client and server), so that --root= can work, and so that it can be
> >> > invoked if systemd is not running as PID 1.
> >>
> >> What is then rationale for having it in PID 1 at all?
> >
> > So that we can provide it as a bus API.
> 
> And it *must* be in PID 1? Can it be systemd-install.service (pick the name)?

Well, you can also just leave it in PID 1. What's the point?

Lennart

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