What's with systemd?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 06/06/2011 08:21 PM, Vikram Goyal wrote:
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> The names are strange like, as mentioned, mail-transfer-agent.target.

You might want to read up on it

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Systemd

> Strangely the output of systemctl list-units, is automatically piped through
> , maybe "less" which may cause problems if used in scripts.

It won't.  systemctl is smart about that

> Also, why systemctl does not take two dashes for long args. Why are we
> breaking away from set pattern of unix semantics & philosophy?

two dashes isn't that uniform really.  If you want it,  file it

Rahul