[systemd-devel] socket activation systemd holding a reference to an accepted socket

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 17.02.16 17:44, Ben Woodard (woodard at redhat.com) wrote:

> Is it intentional that systemd holds a reference to a socket it has
> just accepted even though it just handed the open socket over to a
> socket.activated service that it has just started.

Yes, we do that currently. While there's currently no strict reason to
do this, I think we should continue to do so, as there was always the
plan to provide a bus interface so that services can rerequest their
activation and fdstore fds at any time. Also, for the listening socket
case (i.e. Accept=no case) we do the same and have to, hence it kinda
is makes sure we expose the same behaviour here on all kinds of
sockets.

Did you run into problems with this behaviour?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat