[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: Q on serial-getty

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Mantas Mikulenas <grawity at gmail.com> schrieb am 07.10.2020 um 08:56 in
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> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 9:49 AM Ulrich Windl <
> Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm thinking of configuring a serial getty in SLES15 (systemd-234). First
>> I found that there is no manual page describing the service, and second if
>> I use "systemctl show serial-getty" ("systemctl show serial-getty@" does
>> not work), I get some "funny" numbers:
>>
>> ...
>> UID=4294967295
>> GID=4294967295
>> ...
>> MemoryCurrent=18446744073709551615
>> CPUUsageNSec=18446744073709551615
>> TasksCurrent=18446744073709551615
>> IPIngressBytes=18446744073709551615
>> IPIngressPackets=18446744073709551615
>> IPEgressBytes=18446744073709551615
>> IPEgressPackets=18446744073709551615
>> ...
>> CPUWeight=18446744073709551615
>> StartupCPUWeight=18446744073709551615
>> CPUShares=18446744073709551615
>> StartupCPUShares=18446744073709551615
>> ...
>>
>> Obviously that number is the unsigned 64-bit representation of -1, but
>> considering that no such service is running, the output looks quite odd.
>> If -1 means "unknown", why not use that string, or if it means
>> "unlimited", why not use that string?
>>
> 
> This was fixed in systemd-235 several years ago.
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/21771f338d268e06dc9a10b9b08b14ff82

> 17d4be
> 

Thanks, good to know.

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> Mantas Mikulėnas