[systemd-devel] Some useful patches

Kay Sievers kay at vrfy.org
Fri Mar 28 11:06:02 PDT 2014


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Hristo Venev <hristo at venev.name> wrote:
> The first patch moves the user generator directories to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. This
> way the path for the generator directories is always under the manager's
> runtime prefix. Consistency and code size.
>
> The second patch moves the transient user units to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. This way
> they are deleted on reboot just like the system transient units and do not take
> space in XDG_CONFIG_HOME.
>
> The third patch lets transient units set EnvironmentFiles. It can be used in
> systemd-run like this: systemd-run -p EnvirontmentFiles="fileA fileB fileC"
> Drop-in files for this are not yet implemented.

Please include any *why*, along with the *what* in the commit log itself.

The commit subject really does not help to explain why something is
changed, and that is what matters, in the end; the patch itself
usually explains pretty well what is done, but not why.

Kay


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