[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 236

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 06:59:55AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 15.12.2017 01:17, Lennart Poettering пишет:
> > 
> >         * systemctl gained a new --dry-run switch that shows what would be done
> >           instead of doing it, and is currently supported by the shutdown and
> >           sleep verbs.
> > 
> 
> I though first it was replacement for (or extension of) "sytsemd --test"
> but looking through patch, it simply prints "Would call unit" while the
> really interesting part is to see transaction (all dependent units).
> Just trying to understand the use case for this.

I plan to add this to most systemd commands, to function as "what
would this do" helper. Quite useful for tmpfiles, sysusers, systemd-mount, etc.

Zbyszek