[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: Q: Difference between AssertPathExists and ConditionPathExists?

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On 17.03.2022 14:15, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>>>> Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> schrieb am 17.03.2022 um 12:08 in
> Nachricht
> <CAA91j0VhohCGHpt1Lbk4Ro0PHXzMEOE6eVkTsoGf16rvJ4bWKg at mail.gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:32 PM Ulrich Windl
>> <Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> When reading the manual page systemd.unit(5), I'm not quite sure what the 
>> difference between AssertPathExists and ConditionPathExists is:
>>>
>>> (Condition)
>>> If the specified absolute path name does not exist, the condition will fail.
>>>
>>> Vs.
>>>
>>> (Assert)
>>> However, unlike the conditions settings, any assertion setting that is not 
>> met results
>>> in failure of the start job it was triggered by.
>>> ----
>>> What does that mean effectively?
>>>
>>
>> Assert makes the start job fail, which triggers any followup failure
>> processing (like failure of other units Requiring this one). Condition
>> silently skips starting of this unit but proceeds normally with
>> starting dependent units.
> 
> OK, ist that "skip" actually a "skip once (and silently) for now", or is it more like a "delay until no longer true"?
> 

Start job is completed without doing anything, there is no delay.