Sometimes it's useful to provide a default value during an environment
expansion, if the environment variable isn't already set.
For instance $XDG_DATA_DIRS is suppose to default to:
/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
if it's not yet set. That means callers wishing to augment
XDG_DATA_DIRS need to manually add those two values.
This commit changes replace_env to support the following shell
compatible default value syntax:
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/foo:${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/usr/share}
Likewise, it's useful to provide an alternate value during an
environment expansion, if the environment variable isn't already set.
For instance, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH will inadvertently search the current
working directory if it starts or ends with a colon, so the following
is usually wrong:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/foo/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
To address that, this changes replace_env to support the following
shell compatible alternate value syntax:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/foo/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}
[zj: gate the new syntax under REPLACE_ENV_ALLOW_EXTENDED switch, so
existing callers are not modified.]
(Only in environment.d files.)
We have only basic compatibility with shell syntax, but specifying variables
without using braces is probably more common, and I think a lot of people would
be surprised if this didn't work.
merge_env_file is a new function, that's like load_env_file, but takes a
pre-existing environment as an input argument. New environment entries are
merged. Variable expansion is performed.
Falling back to the process environment is supported (when a flag is set).
Alternatively this could be implemented as passing an additional fallback
environment array, but later on we're adding another flag to allow braceless
expansion, and the two flags can be combined in one arg, so there's less
stuff to pass around.
This protocol is generally useful, we might just as well reuse it for the
env. generators.
The implementation is changed a bit: instead of making a new strv and freeing
the old one, just mutate the original. This is much faster with larger arrays,
while in fact atomicity is preserved, since we only either insert the new
entry or not, without being in inconsistent state.
v2:
- fix confusion with return value
This directive allows passing environment variables from the system
manager to spawned services. Variables in the system manager can be set
inside a container by passing `--set-env=...` options to systemd-spawn.
Tested with an on-disk test.service unit. Tested using multiple variable
names on a single line, with an empty setting to clear the current list
of variables, with non-existing variables.
Tested using `systemd-run -p PassEnvironment=VARNAME` to confirm it
works with transient units.
Confirmed that `systemctl show` will display the PassEnvironment
settings.
Checked that man pages are generated correctly.
No regressions in `make check`.
This adds support for a new environment variable
SYSTEMCTL_INSTALL_CLIENT_SIDE, that ensures that systemctl executes
install operations client-side instead of passing them to PID1. This is
useful in debugging situations, but even beyond that. However, we don't
want to make it official API, hence let's just make it an undocumented
environment variable.
Similar, add a second variable, SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_SYSV which allows
skipping the SysV chkconfig fall-back if set. This is useful for similar
reasons, and exposed as undocumented as environment variable for similar
reasons, too.
