[systemd-devel] Getting boot progress and messages

[Umut Tezduyar Lindskog]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Daniel Mack <daniel at zonque.org> wrote:
> On 06/24/2015 11:30 AM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog wrote:
>> IMPORTANT: Man page says "This interface is private to systemd and
>> should not be used in external projects." for /run/systemd/private. I
>> am not sure if this is still the case.
>
> Yes it is. The private socket is a hack that will go away mid-term when
> kdbus is fully adopted. If you still use it from external projects,
> prepare to rework the affected bits in the future.

Good to know Daniel. Thomas, you can always use systemctl to retrieve
these values if you don't care about the overhead. It is systemctl
connecting to the private socket.

>
>> If not, we need to change the man page.
>
> Nope, it should stay in. The private socket is not an API that is
> guaranteed to remain available.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>