[systemd-devel] instantiated services set up

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 08:56:48PM +0100, Jan Včelák wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > OK. I will remove the syslog. But I will have to keep network.target for
> > > now as we support non-Linux systems as well. Adding support for rtnl or
> > > IP_FREEBIND would mean duplicating a lot of code... probably.
> > 
> > Note that invoking IP_FREEBIND is just a single setsockopt() line...
> 
> You are right. We enabled IP_FREEBIND after all. (And we also added IP_BINDANY 
> and IPV6_BINDANY on FreeBSD to achieve the same behavior.)
> 
> On the other hand, we cannot give the administrator proper feedback when the 
> daemon is configured incorrectly.
> 

  If you need, you can first try binding without IP_FREEBIND. If it fails,
you can print "Configured address (xxx) not available yet", enable IP_FREEBIND
and call bind() again.

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