[systemd-devel] The first and the last things in systemd's lifecycle

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> schrieb am 14.05.2019 um 08:40 in
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> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:35 AM Ulrich Windl
> <Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
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>> I knew that. It doesn't answer _why_ /var/run is obsolete.
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> /var/run needs /var which is not guaranteed to be there when you need
> it which complicates things.

Thanks,

I'll start a new thread on this (I wanted to ask anyway):
AFAIK systemd does socket communication a lot, while old init was happy with just a root filesystem.
So I wonder how this Hen-Egg_Problem is solved: Systemd needs a socket to operate, but to provide the infrastructure, systemd would need the socket do do so.
Or expressed in other words: How can systemd create /run when it needs /run to operate?
The corresponding question would be for shutdown: How will systemd unmount /run? OK, if ist a ramdisk, it's not really needed.

Another related question is that of shutdown in general:
For startup the semantics of Before= and After= are clear, but isn't it just reverted for shutdown? That is if "M" has "After=X" and "Before=Y", does that imply that Y is stopped before M will be stzopped, and M will be stopped before X is?

>From the experience how fast shutdown happens, I don't think it's like that.

Regards,
Ulrich