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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-02-06 17:53:31 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-02-06 17:54:48 -0500
commit89fc708c0ae9ea8ab31f04bc27e845038d30b543 (patch)
treefd84621b9023e4543dbb34144a232169c7ab1c8d
parent89a1675845a3aef3f2238d6f391629ea0f96986f (diff)
man: clarify that generators are run before /var
Just a clarification. At least systemd-openqa-generator from openqa gets this wrong.
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.generator.xml15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.generator.xml b/man/systemd.generator.xml
index 62658fb115..4b80dab108 100644
--- a/man/systemd.generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.generator.xml
@@ -164,13 +164,16 @@
Generators are run very early at boot and cannot rely on
any external services. They may not talk to any other
process. That includes simple things such as logging to
- <citerefentry
- project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
or <command>systemd</command> itself (this means: no
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>!). They
- can however rely on the most basic kernel functionality to
- be available, including a mounted <filename>/sys</filename>,
- <filename>/proc</filename>, <filename>/dev</filename>.
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>)!.
+ Non-essential file systems like
+ <filename>/var</filename> and <filename>/home</filename>
+ are mounted after generators have run. Generators
+ can however rely on the most basic kernel functionality to be
+ available, including a mounted <filename>/sys</filename>,
+ <filename>/proc</filename>, <filename>/dev</filename>,
+ <filename>/usr</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>