systemd: Is it wrong?

[Steve Dickson]

On 07/11/2011 01:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 11.07.11 13:29, Steve Dickson (SteveD at redhat.com) wrote:
>>>>    * The variables read out of the EnvironmentFile are *always* 
>>>>      character strings which means set LOCKD_TCPPORT=234 is
>>>>      no longer possible. Losing that ability to set variable to 
>>>>      integer values seem to like a giant step backwards.   
>>>
>>> Hmm? Shell only understands strings, too. What precisely are you asking for?
>> in /etc/sysconfig/nfsservices
>> set LOCKD_TCPPORT=234
>>
>> In nfsservice.service
>>
>> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/nfsservices
>> ExecStartPre=/sbin/sysctl -w $LOCKD_TCPPORT
>>
>> to work.
> 
> This will work. And I completely fail to see what this has to do with
> integer values? Can you elaborate?
If I'm interpreting commitments:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699040#c43
and 
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699040#c44

Correctly, the only way to make this work is to make LOCKD_TCPPORT
then entire string "fs.nfs.nlm_udpport=12345" instead of just 12345

steved