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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-03-03 01:49:11 -0500 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2013-03-03 08:55:53 -0500 |
| commit | 28a79bd28b706e33825ec01fc651dbd76a252ea3 (patch) | |
| tree | 487c71cc457f20b78733bd872a87a092434a7b4d /man | |
| parent | e0207c8d91514350c6a1bf0dda9337823004c371 (diff) | |
core/path: catch errors when adding watches
Errors because of oom conditions or descriptor exhaustion should not
be ignored. We probably cannot recover from those conditions.
Current behaviour wrt. insufficient permissions is described in the
man page. It might make sense in case of user sessions, so I left
it as is.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.path.xml | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.path.xml b/man/systemd.path.xml index cc2d366198..1975142d2c 100644 --- a/man/systemd.path.xml +++ b/man/systemd.path.xml @@ -88,16 +88,15 @@ point in the file system hierarchy, a dependency between both units is created automatically.</para> - <para>Unless <varname>DefaultDependencies=</varname> - is set to <option>false</option>, path units will - implicitly have dependencies of type - <varname>Conflicts=</varname> and + <para>Unless <varname>DefaultDependencies=false</varname> + is used, path units will implicitly have dependencies of + type <varname>Conflicts=</varname> and <varname>Before=</varname> on <filename>shutdown.target</filename>. These ensure that path units are terminated cleanly prior to system shutdown. Only path units involved with early boot or - late system shutdown should disable this - option.</para> + late system shutdown should disable this option. + </para> </refsect1> <refsect1> @@ -157,7 +156,7 @@ assignments of these options will not have any effect.</para> - <para>If a path is already existing + <para>If a path already exists (in case of <varname>PathExists=</varname> and <varname>PathExistsGlob=</varname>) or @@ -168,7 +167,15 @@ activated, then the configured unit is immediately activated as well. Something similar does not apply - to <varname>PathChanged=</varname>. + to <varname>PathChanged=</varname> and + <varname>PathModified=</varname>.</para> + + <para>If the path itself or any of the + containing directories are not + accessible, <command>systemd</command> + will watch for permission changes and + notice that conditions are satisfied + when permissions allow that. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |