[systemd-devel] Ensuring that a unit starts before any networking

[Lennart Poettering]

On Di, 30.06.20 11:45, Mark Rogers (mark at more-solutions.co.uk) wrote:

> >From that, is it reasonable to conclude that this is just an omission that
> has no potential negative effects from being fixed? I can't see any reason
> why adding After=network-pre.target would have direct a negative impact
> (it's plausible that on some systems it could subtly alter startup ordering
> and expose a bug that was previously hidden by luck, but that's not a
> reason to avoid doing it) and so there is no good reason not to do this,
> but my knowledge of this isn't adequate to make an informed statement on
> that matter. Before I make the argument for it being fixed I want to be
> sure of my argument!

well, one never knows what might triger bugs somewhere, but afaics
this should be a relatively riskless fix.


Lennart

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