[systemd-devel] Possible bug when a dummy service declares After= and/or Conflicts= a .mount unit?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 04.03.15 16:27, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:

> 2015-03-04 15:41 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> > Well, just removing the symlink is kinda pointless. It might still be pulled
> > in by anything else that implicitly depepends on /tmp.
> 
> What unit is supposed to pull in tmp.mount explicitly? If a generic
> unit did that, this sounds like a bug.

It is pulled in implicitly.

In many cases dependencies are automatically generated by systemd. For
example: you have a mount unit for /tmp/foo and one for /tmp. The
former is enabled, the latter is not. Simply because tmp-foo.mount is
below tmp.mount this will pull in the latter too and you ened up with
both enabled.

Similar automatic deps are generated in a variety of cases, for
example if you have an AF_UNIX socket, or a pipe socket listening
inside of /tmp, you pull in tmp.mount via it. 

Also, anything that has PrivateTmp= set will pull in tmp.mount, since
it implicitly refers to /tmp and /var/tmp.

And so on, and so on.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat