[systemd-devel] suggestion: auto reload as the default to help packagers?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mo, 17.06.19 16:24, Lennart Poettering (mznyfn at 0pointer.de) wrote:

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> On current Linuxes the assumption tends to be that there's only one
> RPM instance or one admin running at a time, and that they schedule
> the configuration reload when they think there work is complete. It's
> basically a transaction logic by linerarization and move the burden to
> manage this onto the user/package manager.

Addendum: there's also the problem that reloading PID1 in full can be
slow on bigger systems where you have 10Ks of units. hence reloading
all the time willy-nilly might be quite slow. Ideally, RPM would only
reload configuration once after all its work is complete.

Lennart

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