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authorKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2013-07-26 05:22:22 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2013-07-26 18:40:40 +0200
commite21fea24ae2a7a04f6d5c9d2bbbaf5833d248952 (patch)
treee73759c9e6d0f38074436f0a22745c9131dd5ef8 /man/systemd.xml
parent68fee104e630eb19f04b8196a83c14c2c9c469e7 (diff)
rework systemd's own process environment handling/passing
Stop importing non-sensical kernel-exported variables. All parameters in the kernel command line are exported to the initial environment of PID1, but suppressed if they are recognized by kernel built-in code. The EFI booted kernel will add further kernel-internal things which do not belong into userspace. The passed original environ data of the process is not touched and preserved across re-execution, to allow external reading of /proc/self/environ for process properties like container*=.
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diff --git a/man/systemd.xml b/man/systemd.xml
index 1e54eac926..32bca0b607 100644
--- a/man/systemd.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.xml
@@ -1113,16 +1113,11 @@
<term><varname>systemd.setenv=</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Takes a string
- argument in the form
- VARIABLE=VALUE. May be used to set
- environment variables for the init
- process and all its children at boot
- time. May be used more than once to
- set multiple variables. If the equal
- sign and variable are missing it unsets
- an environment variable which might be
- passed in from the initial ram
- disk.</para></listitem>
+ argument in the form VARIABLE=VALUE.
+ May be used to set default environment
+ variables to add to forked child processes.
+ May be used more than once to set multiple
+ variables.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>