unit: issue notify even if the high-level state didn't change

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/unit.c b/unit.c
index bea96a21cb..6406015b4b 100644
--- a/unit.c
+++ b/unit.c
@@ -856,8 +856,12 @@ void unit_notify(Unit *u, UnitActiveState os, UnitActiveState ns) {
         assert(!(os == UNIT_ACTIVE && ns == UNIT_ACTIVATING));
         assert(!(os == UNIT_INACTIVE && ns == UNIT_DEACTIVATING));
 
-        if (os == ns)
-                return;
+        /* Note that this is called for all low-level state changes,
+         * even if they might map to the same high-level
+         * UnitActiveState! That means that ns == os is OK an expected
+         * behaviour here. For example: if a mount point is remounted
+         * this function will be called too and the utmp code below
+         * relies on that! */
 
         if (!UNIT_IS_ACTIVE_OR_RELOADING(os) && UNIT_IS_ACTIVE_OR_RELOADING(ns))
                 u->meta.active_enter_timestamp = now(CLOCK_REALTIME);