Instead of assuming that more-recently modified directories have higher mtime,
just look for any mtime changes, up or down. Since we don't want to remember
individual mtimes, hash them to obtain a single value.
This should help us behave properly in the case when the time jumps backwards
during boot: various files might have mtimes that in the future, but we won't
care. This fixes the following scenario:
We have /etc/systemd/system with T1. T1 is initially far in the past.
We have /run/systemd/generator with time T2.
The time is adjusted backwards, so T2 will be always in the future for a while.
Now the user writes new files to /etc/systemd/system, and T1 is updated to T1'.
Nevertheless, T1 < T1' << T2.
We would consider our cache to be up-to-date, falsely.
The time-based cache allows starting a new unit without an expensive
daemon-reload, unless there was already a reference to it because of
a dependency or ordering from another unit.
If the cache is out of date, check again if we can load the
fragment.
For units which are aliases of other units, reporting preset status as
"enabled" is rather misleading. For example, dbus.service is an alias of
dbus-broker.service. In list-unit-files we'd show both as "enabled". In
particular, systemctl preset ignores aliases, so showing any preset status at
all is always going to be misleading. Let's introduce a new state "alias" and
use that for all aliases.
I was trying to avoid adding a new state, to keep compatibility with previous
behaviour, but for alias unit files it simply doesn't seem very useful to show
any of the existing states. It seems that the clearly showing that those are
aliases for other units will be easiest to understand for users.
If we have a template unit template@.service, it should be allowed to specify a
dependency on a unit without an instance, bar@.service. When the unit is created,
the instance will be propagated into the target, so template@inst.service will
depend on bar@inst.service.
This commit changes unit_dependency_name_compatible(), which makes the manager
accept links like that, and unit_file_verify_alias(), so that the installation
function will agree to create a symlink like that, and finally the tests are
adjusted to pass.
It if of course related to /proc/cmdline parsing, but is higher-level
functionality built on top of it. It should be in shared/ because it
is something to be used by pid1 and related utilities, not something for
level-level libraries.
v2:
- do not watch mtime of transient and generated dirs
We'd reload the map after every transient unit we created, which we don't
need to do, since we create those units ourselves and know their fragment
path.
This reworks how we load units from disk. Instead of chasing symlinks every
time we are asked to load a unit by name, we slurp all symlinks from disk
and build two hashmaps:
1. from unit name to either alias target, or fragment on disk
(if an alias, we put just the target name in the hashmap, if a fragment
we put an absolute path, so we can distinguish both).
2. from a unit name to all aliases
Reading all this data can be pretty costly (40 ms) on my machine, so we keep it
around for reuse.
The advantage is that we can reliably know what all the aliases of a given unit
are. This means we can reliably load dropins under all names. This fixes#11972.
It turns out most possible symlinks are invalid, because the type has to match,
and template units can only be linked to template units.
I'm not sure if the existing code made the same checks consistently. At least
I don't see the same rules expressed in a single place.
Yu Watanabe