[systemd-devel] RFC: removing initctl support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:51:16PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 03:01:21PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > That stackexchange link lists a pile of garbage. We have an official
> > API to check whether the system is booted with systemd:
> > sd_booted(). It's documented here:
> > 
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_booted.html
> > 
> > And we even document on that man page what precisely it does
> > internally (which is equivalent to access("/run/systemd/system/",
> > F_OK) >= 0) and suggest people to reimplement that simple check in the
> > language of their choice, even in shell... That way, they don't even
> > have to link against libsystemd.
> 
>   And then there is this sabotage:
> 
> „This check is already broken, because uselessd creates this directory too”
> 
> uselessd% git grep 'mkdir.*/run/systemd/system'
> src/core/main-no-init.c:        mkdir_label("/run/systemd/system", 0755);
> src/core/mount-setup.c:        mkdir_label("/run/systemd/system", 0755);
> src/core/unit.c:                mkdir_p("/run/systemd/system", 0755);

Well if it wants to claim to be systemd, then it is responsible for
providing the same API/ABIs as systemd. IOW it must respond to SIGRTMIN+4
in the same way, etc.


Regards,
Daniel
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