This introduces `ExitType=main|cgroup` for services.
Similar to how `Type` specifies the launch of a service, `ExitType` is
concerned with how systemd determines that a service exited.
- If set to `main` (the current behavior), the service manager will consider
the unit stopped when the main process exits.
- The `cgroup` exit type is meant for applications whose forking model is not
known ahead of time and which might not have a specific main process.
The service will stay running as long as at least one process in the cgroup
is running. This is intended for transient or automatically generated
services, such as graphical applications inside of a desktop environment.
Motivation for this is #16805. The original PR (#18782) was reverted (#20073)
after realizing that the exit status of "the last process in the cgroup" can't
reliably be known (#19385)
This version instead uses the main process exit status if there is one and just
listens to the cgroup empty event otherwise.
The advantages of a service with `ExitType=cgroup` over scopes are:
- Integrated logging / stdout redirection
- Avoids the race / synchronisation issue between launch and scope creation
- More extensive use of drop-ins and thus distro-level configuration:
by moving from scopes to services we can have drop ins that will affect
properties that can only be set during service creation,
like `OOMPolicy` and security-related properties
- It makes systemd-xdg-autostart-generator usable by fixing [1], as obviously
only services can be used in the generator, not scopes.
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433299
Previously, the prefix delegation is enabled when at least one
downstream interfaces request it. But, when the DHCPv6 client on the
upstream interface is configured, some downstream interfaces may not
exist yet, nor have .network file assigned.
Also, if a system has thousands of interfaces, then the previous logic
introduce O(n^2) search.
This makes the prefix delegation is always enabled, except when it is
explicitly disabled. Hopefully, that should not break anything, as the
DHCPv6 server should ignore the prefix delegation request if the server
do not have any prefix to delegate.
I want to mark some files to be ignored for licensing purposes,
e.g. output from fuzzers and other samples. By using the gitattribute
machinery for this we don't need to design a custom protocol:
$ git check-attr generated test/test-sysusers/unhappy-*
test/test-sysusers/unhappy-1.expected-err: generated: set
test/test-sysusers/unhappy-1.input: generated: unspecified
test/test-sysusers/unhappy-2.expected-err: generated: set
test/test-sysusers/unhappy-2.input: generated: unspecified
test/test-sysusers/unhappy-3.expected-err: generated: set
test/test-sysusers/unhappy-3.input: generated: unspecified
We also have a bunch of files that have some bytes and a lot
of text, like the journal export format. For those, it is still quite
useful when the tools try to diff them, so let's not mark those.
Currently there does not exist a way to specify a path relative to which
all binaries executed by Exec should be found. The only way is to
specify the absolute path.
This change implements the functionality to specify a path relative to which
binaries executed by Exec*= can be found.
Closes#6308
This reverts commit cb0e818f7c.
After this was merged, some design and implementation issues were discovered,
see the discussion in #18782 and #19385. They certainly can be fixed, but so
far nobody has stepped up, and we're nearing a release. Hopefully, this feature
can be merged again after a rework.
Fixes#19345.
Previously, IPv6LinkLocalAddressGenerationMode= is not set, then we
define the address generation mode based on the result of reading
stable_secret sysctl value. This makes the mode is determined by whether
a secret address is specified in the new setting.
Closes#19622.
When fuzzing, the following happens:
- we parse 'data' and produce an argv array,
- one of the items in argv is assigned to arg_host,
- the argv array is subsequently freed by strv_freep(), and arg_host has a dangling symlink.
In normal use, argv is static, so arg_host can never become a dangling pointer.
In fuzz-systemctl-parse-argv, if we repeatedly parse the same array, we
have some dangling pointers while we're in the middle of parsing. If we parse
the same array a second time, at the end all the dangling pointers will have been
replaced again. But for a short time, if parsing one of the arguments uses another
argument, we would use a dangling pointer.
Such a case occurs when we have --host=… --boot-loader-entry=help. The latter calls
acquire_bus() which uses arg_host.
I'm not particularly happy with making the code more complicated just for
fuzzing, but I think it's better to resolve this, even if the issue cannot
occur in normal invocations, than to deal with fuzzer reports.
Should fix https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=31714.
This is like a really strong version of Wants=, that keeps starting the
specified unit if it is ever found inactive.
This is an alternative to Restart= inside a unit, acknowledging the fact
that whether to keep restarting the unit is sometimes not a property of
the unit itself but the state of the system.
This implements a part of what #4263 requests. i.e. there's no
distinction between "always" and "opportunistic". We just dumbly
implement "always" and become active whenever we see no job queued for
an inactive unit that is supposed to be upheld.
This is similar to OnFailure= but is activated whenever a unit returns
into inactive state successfully.
I was always afraid of adding this, since it effectively allows building
loops and makes our engine Turing complete, but it pretty much already
was it was just hidden.
Given that we have per-unit ratelimits as well as an event loop global
ratelimit I feel safe to add this finally, given it actually is useful.
Fixes: #13386
Yu Watanabe
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Henri Chain
Daan De Meyer
Luca Boccassi
Iago López Galeiras
Albert Brox
alexlzhu
Lennart Poettering
Peter Morrow
Anita Zhang
Mauricio Vásquez
Maxime de Roucy
borna-blazevic