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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2016-02-06 17:53:31 -0500 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2016-02-06 17:54:48 -0500 |
| commit | 89fc708c0ae9ea8ab31f04bc27e845038d30b543 (patch) | |
| tree | fd84621b9023e4543dbb34144a232169c7ab1c8d | |
| parent | 89a1675845a3aef3f2238d6f391629ea0f96986f (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.xml | 15 |
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> |