[systemd-devel] [systemd-commits] units/basic.target units/poweroff.target units/reboot.target

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Wed Nov 5 18:22:09 PST 2014


On Wed, 05.11.14 17:46, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at kemper.freedesktop.org) wrote:

Ahum.

This needs more discussion.
> 
>     units: disable job timeouts
>     
>     For boot, we might kill fsck in the middle, with likely catastrophic
>     consequences.

This I can agree with for now. However, we really should revisit this.

>     On shutdown there might be other jobs, like downloading of updates for
>     installation, and other custom jobs. It seems better to schedule an
>     individual timeout on each one separately, when it is known what
>     timeout is useful.

However, this one appears bogus to me. Is there any such software
around that really does this? And if so, this really appears weird to
me to support. Delaying shutdown for more than 30min is just wrong.

Lennart

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