[systemd-devel] Getting boot progress and messages

[Daniel Mack]

On 06/24/2015 11:57 AM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog wrote:
> 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.

Right, and you can also use the private socket from your own projects,
nothing can stop you from doing so. But if you do, consider it an
unsupported hack that might stop working at some point.


Thanks,
Daniel