For similar reasons as the recent addition of a limit on sessions.
Note that we don't enforce a limit on inhibitors per-user currently, but
there's an implicit one, since each inhibitor takes up one fd, and fds are
limited via RLIMIT_NOFILE, and the limit on the number of processes per user.
We really should put limits on all resources we manage, hence add one to the
number of concurrent sessions, too. This was previously unbounded, hence set a
relatively high limit of 8K by default.
Note that most PAM setups will actually invoke pam_systemd prefixed with "-",
so that the return code of pam_systemd is ignored, and the login attempt
succeeds anyway. On systems like this the session will be created but is not
tracked by systemd.
This new setting configures the TasksMax= field for the slice objects we
create for each user.
This alters logind to create the slice unit as transient unit explicitly
instead of relying on implicit generation of slice units by simply
starting them. This also enables us to set a friendly description for
slice units that way.
This introduces 'HoldoffTimeoutSec' to logind.conf to make
IGNORE_LID_SWITCH_{SUSPEND,STARTUP}_USEC configurable.
Background: If an external monitor is connected, or if the system is
docked, we want to ignore LID events. This is required to support setups
where a laptop is used with external peripherals while the LID is closed.
However, this requires us to probe all hot-plugged devices before reacting
to LID events. But with modern buses like USB, the standards do not impose
any timeout on the slots, so we have no chance to know whether a given
slot is used or not. Hence, after resume and startup, we have to wait a
fixed timeout to give the kernel a chance to probe devices. Our timeout
has always been generous enough to support even the slowest devices.
However, a lot of people didn't use these features and wanted to disable
the hold-off timer. Now we provide a knob to do that.
This way each user allocates from his own pool, with its own size limit.
This puts the size limit by default to 10% of the physical RAM size but
makes it configurable in logind.conf.
In order to prepare things for the single-writer cgroup scheme, let's
make logind use systemd's own primitives for cgroup management.
Every login user now gets his own private slice unit, in which his sessions
live in a scope unit each. Also, add user@$UID.service to the same
slice, and implicitly start it on first login.
Internally we store all time values in usec_t, however parse_usec()
actually was used mostly to parse values in seconds (unless explicit
units were specified to define a different unit). Hence, be clear about
this and name the function about what we pass into it, not what we get
out of it.
Previously, if X allocated all 6 TTYs (for multi-session for example) no
getty would be available anymore to guarantee console-based logins.
With the new ReserveVT= switch in logind.conf we can now choose one VT
(6 by default) that will always be subject to autovt-style activation,
i.e. we'll always have a getty on TTY6, and X will never take possession
of it.
This takes handling of chassis power and sleep keys as well as the lid
switch over from acpid.
This logic is enabled by default for power and sleep keys, but not for
the lid switch.
If a graphical session is in the foreground no action is taken under the
assumption that the graphical session does this.
Lennart Poettering