On systems without an RTC, systemd currently sets the clock to a
compile-time epoch value, derived from the NEWS file in the
repository. This is not ideal as the initial clock hence depends
on the last time systemd was built, not when the image was compiled.
Let's provide a different way here and look at `/usr/lib/clock-epoch`.
If that file exists, it's timestamp for the last modification will be
used instead of the compile-time default.
This doesn't have much effect on the final build, because we link libbasic.a
into libsystemd-shared.so, so in the end, all the object built from basic/
end up in libsystemd-shared. And when the static library is linked into binaries,
any objects that are included in it but are not used are trimmed. Hence, the
size of output artifacts doesn't change:
$ du -sb /var/tmp/inst*
54181861 /var/tmp/inst1 (old)
54207441 /var/tmp/inst1s (old split-usr)
54182477 /var/tmp/inst2 (new)
54208041 /var/tmp/inst2s (new split-usr)
(The negligible change in size is because libsystemd-shared.so is bigger
by a few hundred bytes. I guess it's because symbols are named differently
or something like that.)
The effect is on the build process, in particular partial builds. This change
effectively moves the requirements on some build steps toward the leaves of the
dependency tree. Two effects:
- when building items that do not depend on libsystemd-shared, we
build less stuff for libbasic.a (which wouldn't be used anyway,
so it's a net win).
- when building items that do depend on libshared, we reduce libbasic.a as a
synchronization point, possibly allowing better parallelism.
Method:
1. copy list of .h files from src/basic/meson.build to /tmp/basic
2. $ for i in $(grep '.h$' /tmp/basic); do echo $i; git --no-pager grep "include \"$i\"" src/basic/ 'src/lib*' 'src/nss-*' 'src/journal/sd-journal.c' |grep -v "${i%.h}.c";echo ;done | less
This patch removes includes that are not used. The removals were found with
include-what-you-use which checks if any of the symbols from a header is
in use.
We can not reliably manage any notion of local time. Every daylight
saving time change or time zone change by traveling will make the
time jump, and the local time might jump backwards which creates
unsolvable problems with file timestamps.
We will no longer tell the kernel our local time zone and leave
everything set to UTC. This will effectively turn FAT timestamps
into UTC timestamps.
If and only if the machine is configured to read the RTC in local
time mode, the kernel's time zone will be configured, but
systemd-timesysnc will disable the kernel's system time to RTC
syncing. In this mode, the RTC will not be managed, and external
tools like Windows bootups are expected to manage the RTC's time.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81538
Create initial stamp file with compiled-in time to prevent bootups
with clocks in the future from storing invalid timestamps.
At shutdown, only update the timestamp if we got an authoritative
time to store.
