1. If we exited emergency mode immediately, we don't want to have an
irreversible stop job still running for syslog.socket. I _suspect_ that
can't happen, but let's not waste effort working out exactly why it's
impossible and not just very improbable.
2. Similarly, it seems undesirable to have rescue.service and
emergency.service both running with an open FD of /dev/console, for
however short a period.
Note this commit only changes how the code is expressed; it does not change
the existence of any dependency.
The `Conflicts=` was added in 3136ec90, "Stop syslog.socket when entering
emergency mode". The discussion in the issue #266 raised concerns that
this might be needed for other units, but failed to point out why
syslog.socket is special. The reason is that syslog.socket has
DefaultDepedencies=no, so it does not get Requires=sysinit.target like
other socket units do. But syslog.service does require sysinit.target,
among other things.
We don't have many socket, path, or timer units with
DefaultDependencies=no, and I don't think any of the triggered services
have such additional hard dependencies as syslog.service does.
It is much less confusing if we keep this `Conflicts=` in the same file as
the `DefaultDependencies=no` which made it necessary.
We no longer allow early-boot init scripts, however in late boot the
syslog socket and local mounts are established anyway, so let's simplify
our dep graph a bit.
If $syslog doesn't resolve to syslog.target anymore there's no reason to
keep syslog.target around anymore. Let's remove it.
Note that many 3rd party service unit files order themselves after
syslog.target. These will be dangling dependencies now, which should be
unproblematic, however.
This should help making the boot process a bit easier to explore and
understand for the administrator. The simple idea is that "systemctl
status" now shows a link to documentation alongside the other status and
decriptionary information of a service.
This patch adds the necessary fields to all our shipped units if we have
proper documentation for them.
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.
Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.
The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.
The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
Both kmsg-syslogd and the real syslog service want to receive
SCM_CREDENTIALS. With socket activation it is too late to set
SO_PASSCRED in the services.
Yu Watanabe