[systemd-devel] Antw: Re: Antw: [EXT] Re: SOLVED: daemon-reload does not pick up changes to /etc/systemd/system during boot

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mo, 24.10.22 12:24, Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de) wrote:

> >>> Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> schrieb am 24.10.2022 um 10:26 in
> Nachricht
> <CAA91j0W3t5a-1MNPaehRhG3DuBYU0eJLpL3X0jvMvpDFsRb3FQ at mail.gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 9:48 AM Ulrich Windl
> > <Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> >>> Alex Aminoff <aminoff at nber.org> schrieb am 21.10.2022 um 18:11 in Nachricht
> >> <c6daef42-ee08-0293-e198-8362691a3185 at nber.org>:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> > Just to close out this thread, I am happy to report that
> >> >
> >> > ExecStart=systemctl start --no-block multi-user.target
> >> >
> >> > worked great.
> >>
> >> Makes me wonder: How does systemd handle indirect recursive starts (like the
> > one shown)?
> >>
> >
> > What do you call a "recursive start"? "systemctl start" simply tells
>
> starting multi-user.target via ExecStart=systemctl start starts all depending units, and probably one of those starts the multi-user.target again.
> That's what I call recursive.

If you enqueue a unit for starting while it is already enqueued for
starting this has no effect.

Lennart

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