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0 pointstonyg2y ago0 comments

Strange protocol. Why not pass a path to a file that should be `touch`d and/or written to, I wonder? Would avoid the complexity of sockets.

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Bu98182y ago

Services may be in a different mount namespace from systemd for sandboxing or other reasons (also means you have to worry about filesystem permissions I suppose). Passing an fd from the parent (systemd) is a nice direct channel between the processes

NewJazz2y ago

But systemd precisely doesn't pass an FD. If it did, you would just need to write() and close().

Bu98182y ago

Yeah I was wrong about that, I confused it with socket-activation passing. The systemd-side socket is available from the process.

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Bu98182y ago

NewJazz2y ago

But systemd precisely doesn't pass an FD. If it did, you would just need to write() and close().

Bu98182y ago

Yeah I was wrong about that, I confused it with socket-activation passing. The systemd-side socket is available from the process.

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