[systemd-devel] How to get all PIDs in a service

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> В Thu, 04 Jun 2015 10:08:52 +0200
> Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> пишет:
>> What's the right way to get all pid belonging to a service? How can I
>> unescape strings from systemctl?
>>
>
> Well, you can use systemd-escape -u, but real question is why it gets
> escaped twice and is it intentional.

We escape all strings we write to a TTY to make sure we don't
accidentally write control-chars. However, we also don't know whether
the data we print was already escaped or not (as we just call a
generic handler on the dbus property).

In short: double-escape is on purpose.

Thanks
David