[systemd-devel] Cleaning up transient scopes

[Umut Tezduyar Lindskog]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 04.03.15 18:51, Alexander Larsson (alexl at redhat.com) wrote:
>
>> If i run a transient scope on the user systemd instance like:
>>
>> $ systemd-run --user --scope true
>>
>> Then the scope seems to live past the end of the process. Is there any
>> way to make it automatically go away with the last process in the
>> cgroup?
>
> Well, yes, the idea is that that just works. However, this is kinda
> broken if the systemd instance managing your scope is not PID 1, as we
> don't get SIGCHLD then.

It has been broken for PID 1 too for some time,
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86520
Umut
>
> Do you create any subcgroups? presumably not?
>
> Normally it should just work then, but I must admit that --user scopes
> got much less testing that system scopes...
>
> Lennart
>
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> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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