This is useful for development where overwriting files out side
the configured prefix will affect the host as well as stateless
systems such as NixOS that don't let packages install to /etc but handle
configuration on their own.
Alternative to https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17501
tested with:
$ mkdir inst build && cd build
$ meson \
-Dcreate-log-dirs=false \
-Dsysvrcnd-path=$(realpath ../inst)/etc/rc.d \
-Dsysvinit-path=$(realpath ../inst)/etc/init.d \
-Drootprefix=$(realpath ../inst) \
-Dinstall-sysconfdir=false \
--prefix=$(realpath ../inst) ..
$ ninja install
":" is prettier, but meson 0.56+ doesn't like it:
src/systemd/meson.build:73: DEPRECATION: ":" is not allowed in test name "cc-sd-bus.h:c", it has been replaced with "_"
src/systemd/meson.build:73: DEPRECATION: ":" is not allowed in test name "cc-sd-bus.h:c-ansi", it has been replaced with "_"
...
Fixes#17568.
With the grandparent change to move most units to app.slice,
those units would be ordered After=app.slice which doesn't make any sense.
Actually they appear earlier, before the manager is even started, and
conceputally it doesn't seem useful to put them under any slice.
... when called with a valid environment variable name. This means that
any time we call it with a fixed string, it is guaranteed to return 0.
(Also when the variable is not present in the environment block.)
Coverity in CID#1435966 was complaining that s->enabled is not "restored" in
all cases. But the code was actually correct, since it should only be
"restored" in the error paths. But let's still make this prettier by not setting
the state before all operations that may fail are done.
We need to set .enabled for the prioq reshuffling operations, so move those down.
No functional change intended.
There are downsides to using fexecve:
when fexecve is used (for normal executables), /proc/pid/status shows Name: 3,
which means that ps -C foobar doesn't work. pidof works, because it checks
/proc/self/cmdline. /proc/self/exe also shows the correct link, but requires
privileges to read. /proc/self/comm also shows "3".
I think this can be considered a kernel deficiency: when O_CLOEXEC is used, this
"3" is completely meaningless. It could be any number. The kernel should use
argv[0] instead, which at least has *some* meaning.
I think the approach with fexecve/execveat is instersting, so let's provide it
as opt-in.
For scripts, when we call fexecve(), on new kernels glibc calls execveat(),
which fails with ENOENT, and then we fall back to execve() which succeeds:
[pid 63039] execveat(3, "", ["/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/test/test-path-util/script.sh", "--version"], 0x7ffefa3633f0 /* 0 vars */, AT_EMPTY_PATH) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid 63039] execve("/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/test/test-path-util/script.sh", ["/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/test/test-path-util/script.sh", "--version"], 0x7ffefa3633f0 /* 0 vars */) = 0
But on older kernels glibc (some versions?) implement a fallback which falls
into the same trap with bash $0:
[pid 13534] execve("/proc/self/fd/3", ["/home/test/systemd/test/test-path-util/script.sh", "--version"], 0x7fff84995870 /* 0 vars */) = 0
We don't want that, so let's call execveat() ourselves. Then we can do the
execve() fallback as we want.
Previously it was very likely, when multiple contenders for the symlink
appear in parallel, that algorithm would select wrong symlink (i.e. one
with lower-priority).
Now the algorithm is much more defensive and when we detect change in
set of contenders for the symlink we reevaluate the selection. Same
happens when new symlink replaces already existing symlink that points
to different device node.
Note that st_mtime member of struct stat is defined as follows,
#define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec
Hence we omitted checking nanosecond part of the timestamp (struct
timespec) and possibly would miss modifications that happened within the
same second.
Jörg Thalheim
Yu Watanabe
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Lennart Poettering
Michal Sekletár
Ronan Pigott