With this change it is possible to send file descriptors to PID 1, via
sd_pid_notify_with_fds() which PID 1 will store individually for each
service, and pass via the usual fd passing logic on next invocation.
This is useful for enable daemon reload schemes where daemons serialize
their state to /run, push their fds into PID 1 and terminate, restoring
their state on next start from the data in /run and passed in from PID
1.
The fds are kept by PID 1 as long as no POLLHUP or POLLERR is seen on
them, and the service they belong to are either not dead or failed, or
have a job queued.
sd_pid_notify() operates like sd_notify(), however operates on a
different PID (for example the parent PID of a process).
Make use of this in systemd-notify, so that message are sent from the
PID specified with --pid= rather than the usually shortlived PID of
systemd-notify itself.
This should increase the likelyhood that PID 1 can identify the cgroup
that the notification message was sent from properly.
Also, introduce a new environment variable named $WATCHDOG_PID which
cotnains the PID of the process that is supposed to send the keep-alive
events. This is similar how $LISTEN_FDS and $LISTEN_PID work together,
and protects against confusing processes further down the process tree
due to inherited environment.
gcc (and other compilers) sometimes generate spurious warnings, and
thus users of public headers must be able to disable warnings.
Printf format attributes can be disabled by setting
#define _sd_printf_attr_
before including the header file.
Also, add similar logic for sentinel attribute:
#define _sd_sentinel_attr_
before including the header file disables the attribute.
This patch adds WatchdogTimestamp[Monotonic] to the systemd service
D-Bus API. The timestamp is updated to the current time when the
service calls 'sd_nofity("WATCHDOG=1\n")'.
Using a timestamp instead of an 'alive' flag has two advantages:
1. No timeout is needed to define when a service is no longer alive.
This simplifies both configuration (no timeout value) and
implementation (no timeout event).
2. It is more robust. A 'dead' service might not be detected should
systemd 'forget' to reset an 'alive' flag. It is much less likely
to get a valid new timestamp if a service died.
