[systemd-devel] Why do passive target units have to exist?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 19.10.17 09:46, 林自均 (johnlinp at gmail.com) wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
> 
> Thank you for your reply!
> Just to confirm: there are about 10 passive system targets in
> systemd.special(5):
> 
> - getty-pre.target
> - cryptsetup-pre.target
> - local-fs-pre.target
> - network.target
> - network-pre.target
> - nss-lookup.target
> - nss-user-lookup.target
> - remote-fs-pre.target
> - rpcbind.target
> - time-sync.target
> 
> Are they all related to early days initscripts?

No, they have nothing to do with that really. They are all
synchronization points that we don't want in the boot transaction if
possible, but pull them in if we have to.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat