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GNOME and/or systemd

Posted Oct 25, 2012 6:10 UTC (Thu) by mbiebl (subscriber, #41876)
In reply to: GNOME and/or systemd by davidstrauss
Parent article: GNOME and/or systemd

Unfortunately you are mistaken about that, see http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=6b...

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Posted Oct 25, 2012 6:24 UTC (Thu) by davidstrauss (subscriber, #85867) [Link]

That's interesting, given that systemd runs find in an austere container with no access to the base system. Maybe the user session mode requires interacting with the base systemd session management API. Regardless, I stand corrected.

GNOME and/or systemd

Posted Oct 25, 2012 9:45 UTC (Thu) by zuki (subscriber, #41808) [Link]

> Now, Thomas' patch actually changes much less than people might
> think. This is because sd_booted() simply checks whether
> /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd is mounted. But to run --user on a foreign system
> you need to set that tree up anyway, as that is a requirement for
> systemd either way.

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