[systemd-devel] [PATCH] TODO: Simple conditionals in tmpfiles

[Josh Triplett]

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Strawman proposal, open to suggestions.  A change like this would make
tmpfiles flexible enough to detect what permission configuration an
admin wants to use and go along with that.  In general, "set a
directory's permissions based on the set{u,g}id status of the binary"
seems common enough to want to support; tmpfiles can implement this with
a simple stat and comparison.

Could potentially be more configurable, by capturing the mode, user, and
group of the item listed as the conditional path, and making them
available as placeholders within the subitem, but that seems like
overkill for the most common cases.

 TODO | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 6cac3e2..988f855 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -570,6 +570,10 @@ Features:
 * tmpfiles:
   - check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
   - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
+  - Simple conditionals: "C path mode user group - (tmpfiles-line)" does tmpfiles-line if path has mode, user, and group:
+    C /usr/bin/screen 2755 root utmp - d /var/run/screen 0775 root utmp
+    C /usr/bin/screen 4755 root utmp - d /var/run/screen 0755 root utmp
+    C /usr/bin/screen 0755 root utmp - d /var/run/screen 1777 root utmp
 
 * for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
 
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