Systemd programming, 30 months later

Posted Sep 29, 2016 0:33 UTC (Thu) by bandrami (guest, #94229)
In reply to: Systemd programming, 30 months later by smcv
Parent article: Systemd programming, 30 months later

Right, and type-"notify" and "dbus" are not very many services in September 2016, are they?

In the future, there will be more of them. As it is, Systemd is either polling or simply blithely ignoring most services, just like SysV did.

Systemd programming, 30 months later

Posted Sep 29, 2016 0:59 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

> Right, and type-"notify" and "dbus" are not very many services in September 2016, are they?

$ date
Thu Sep 29 10:55:16 AEST 2016
$ grep -h Type= /usr/lib/systemd/system/*.service | sort | uniq -c| sort -n
      9 Type=idle
     17 Type=simple
     18 Type=notify
     21 Type=dbus
     23 Type=forking
     92 Type=oneshot

Systemd programming, 30 months later

Posted Sep 29, 2016 6:36 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

Types other than dbus or notify don't poll, either.