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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-10-11 13:40:50 -0400
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-10-11 13:40:50 -0400
commitb744e8937ce603090a9bf64ac7d8cc2c1a29e4f0 (patch)
treed6873059fd870c78dae268671ad0e12ac8c493db /man/systemd.exec.xml
parent40f45ff0c339971fd088e6f9cc2e61444087685d (diff)
parenta46eac1bbddcdd15e741fc6c8389078db1067f81 (diff)
Merge pull request #4067 from poettering/invocation-id
Add an "invocation ID" concept to the service manager
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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term><varname>$INVOCATION_ID</varname></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Contains a randomized, unique 128bit ID identifying each runtime cycle of the unit, formatted
+ as 32 character hexadecimal string. A new ID is assigned each time the unit changes from an inactive state into
+ an activating or active state, and may be used to identify this specific runtime cycle, in particular in data
+ stored offline, such as the journal. The same ID is passed to all processes run as part of the
+ unit.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><varname>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR</varname></term>
<listitem><para>The directory for volatile state. Set for the