[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Horst H. von Brand]

Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 22.07.10 21:30, Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl) wrote:
> > Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 22.07.10 15:19, Simo Sorce (ssorce at redhat.com) wrote:
> > 
> > [...]

> > Sorry, but what if the configuration got screwed up, and <whatever daemon>
> > just won't start properly? Was replaced by a broken version which crashes
> > on startup? Or gets into a loop (or just does something very timeconsuming
> > sometimes) before being ready to answer? This _needs_ answers.
> 
> Well, if a service might take an hour to start up it is not a good
> candidate for socket activation.

Sure isn't. The problem is how to handle a service that usually starts in
a tenth of a second for some reason today takes forever.
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