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It's all fixable...

It's all fixable...

Posted May 27, 2010 12:03 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462)
In reply to: It's all fixable... by khim
Parent article: The road forward for systemd

But is it correct and good approach? Obviously not - duplication of information is almost always bad because copies grow apart over time. Sometimes it's needed for performance reason, but I'm not seeing such need with regard to systemd...

But systemd should be able to handle things like socket options, network addresses, file permissions/ownership, and a few more. I don't see how this can be easily done without duplication of information.

(And how about processes that decide on, say, port numbers or domain socket names only after they have been started?)


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It's all fixable...

Posted May 31, 2010 16:38 UTC (Mon) by mezcalero (guest, #45103) [Link]

Yes, you can configure quite a few socket settings in the systemd .socket files. As it turns out the amount of duplication is only minimal here, since in fact most services don't play any wild games with socket options, and many can be set after the first connection attempt.

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