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system shutdown. Only services involved with early
boot or late system shutdown should disable this
option.</para>
<para>If a service is requested under a certain name
but no unit configuration file is found, systemd looks
for a SysV init script by the same name (with the
<filename>.service</filename> suffix removed) and
dynamically creates a service unit from that
script. This is useful for compatibility with
SysV.</para>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for details about these target units.</para>
<para>Processes systemd spawns ared placed in
individual Linux control groups named after the unit
which they belong to in the private systemd
hierarchy. (see <ulink
url="http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt">cgroups.txt</ulink>
for more information about control groups, or short
"cgroups"). systemd uses this to effectively keep
track of processes. Control group information is
maintained in the kernel, and is accessible via the
file system hierarchy (beneath
<filename>/cgroup/systemd/</filename>), or in tools
such as
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ps</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
(<command>ps xawf -eo pid,user,cgroup,args</command>
is particularly useful to list all processes and the
systemd units they belong to.).</para>
<para>systemd is compatible with the SysV init system
to a large degree: SysV init scripts are supported and
simply read as an alternative (though limited)
configuration file format. The SysV
<filename>/dev/initctl</filename> interface is
provided, and comaptibility implementations of the
various SysV client tools available. In addition to
that various established Unix functionality such as
<filename>/etc/fstab</filename> or the
<filename>utmp</filename> database are
supported.</para>
<para>systemd has a minimal transaction system: if a
unit is requested to start up or shut down it will add
it and all its dependencies to a temporary
transaction. Then, it will verify if the transaction
is consistent (i.e. whether the ordering of all units
is cycle-free). If it is not, systemd will try to fix
it up, and removes non-essential jobs from the
transaction that might remove the loop. Also, systemd
tries to suppress non-essential jobs in the
transaction that would stop a running service. Finally
it is checked whether the jobs of the transaction
contradict jobs that have already been queued, and
optionally the transaction is aborted then. If all
worked out and the transaction is consistent and
minimized in its impact it is merged with all already
outstanding jobs and added to the run
queue. Effectively this means that before executing a
requested operation, systemd will verify that it makes
sense, fixing it if possible, and only failing if it
really cannot work.</para>
<para>Systemd contains native implementations of
various tasks that need to be executed as part of the
boot process. For example, it sets the host name or
configures the loopback network device. It also sets
up and mounts various API file systems, such as
<filename>/sys</filename> or
<filename>/proc</filename>.</para>
<para>For more information about the concepts and
ideas behind systemd please refer to the <ulink
url="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html">Original
Announcement Document</ulink>.</para>
Design Document</ulink>.</para>
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