[systemd-devel] RFC: removing initctl support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:48:21PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 22.09.15 11:41, Daniel P. Berrange (berrange at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > > One more addendum to the original mail:
> > > 
> > > We already declared the interface "obsolete" in the docs, which makes
> > > me particularly keen on dropping it...
> > 
> > I guess one thing is that even if support for /dev/intctl in systemd,
> > it is an optional unit file, so libvirt probably needs to deal with
> > the SIGRTMIN+4 stuff anyway, for case where the person building
> > the container has that unit file disabled. So from that POV, deleting
> > it won't make current situation that much worse.
> 
> Also, we support builds with all legacy cruft disabled, which is
> something where inictl currently is not disabled, but if we kept it
> should really be disable under... So I figure even if we keep the
> general support in this is not an interface you can rely on...
> 
> To make the SIGRTMIN+4 reliable all you need to do is check first if
> /run/systemd/system/ exists.

Ok, that's easy enough. So no objection from libvirt if you remove
/dev/initctl in future releases


Regards,
Daniel
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