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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 74 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/systemd/sd-login.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 37 insertions, 39 deletions
@@ -5,23 +5,21 @@ CHANGES WITH 229: * The systemd-resolved DNS resolver service has gained a substantial set of new features, most prominently it may now act as a DNSSEC validating stub resolver. DNSSEC mode is currently turned off by - default, but it is expected that this is turned on by default in one - of the next releases. For now, we invite everybody to test the DNSSEC - logic by setting DNSSEC=allow-downgrade in - /etc/systemd/resolved.conf. The service also gained a full set of - D-Bus interfaces, including calls to configure DNS and DNSSEC - settings per link (for consumption by external network management - software). systemd-resolved (and systemd-networkd along with it) now - know to distinguish between "search" and "routing" domains. The - former are used to qualify single-label names, the latter are purely - used for routing lookups within certain domains to specific - links. resolved will now also synthesize RRs for all entries from - /etc/hosts. + default, but is expected to be turned on by default in one of the + next releases. For now, we invite everybody to test the DNSSEC logic + by setting DNSSEC=allow-downgrade in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf. The + service also gained a full set of D-Bus interfaces, including calls + to configure DNS and DNSSEC settings per link (for use by external + network management software). systemd-resolved and systemd-networkd + now distinguish between "search" and "routing" domains. The former + are used to qualify single-label names, the latter are used purely + for routing lookups within certain domains to specific links. + resolved now also synthesizes RRs for all entries from /etc/hosts. * The systemd-resolve tool (which is a client utility for - systemd-resolved, and previously experimental) has been improved - considerably and is now fully supported and documented. Hence it has - moved from /usr/lib/systemd to /usr/bin. + systemd-resolved) has been improved considerably and is now fully + supported and documented. Hence it has moved from /usr/lib/systemd to + /usr/bin. * /dev/disk/by-path/ symlink support has been (re-)added for virtio devices. @@ -80,22 +78,22 @@ CHANGES WITH 229: * systemd-nspawn gained a new --as-pid2 switch that invokes any specified command line as PID 2 rather than PID 1 in the - container. In this mode PID 1 will be a minimal stub init process - that implements the special POSIX and Linux semantics of PID 1 - regarding signal and child process management. Note that this stub - init process is implemented in nspawn itself and requires no support - from the container image. This new logic is useful to support running - arbitrary command lines in the container, as normal processes are + container. In this mode PID 1 is a minimal stub init process that + implements the special POSIX and Linux semantics of PID 1 regarding + signal and child process management. Note that this stub init process + is implemented in nspawn itself and requires no support from the + container image. This new logic is useful to support running + arbitrary commands in the container, as normal processes are generally not prepared to run as PID 1. * systemd-nspawn gained a new --chdir= switch for setting the current working directory for the process started in the container. - * "journalctl /dev/sda" will now output all kernel log messages from - the specified device, in addition to all devices that are parents of - it. This should make log output about devices pretty useful, as long - as kernel drivers attach enough metadata to the log messages. (The - usual SATA drivers do.) + * "journalctl /dev/sda" will now output all kernel log messages for + specified device from the current boot, in addition to all devices + that are parents of it. This should make log output about devices + pretty useful, as long as kernel drivers attach enough metadata to + the log messages. (The usual SATA drivers do.) * The sd-journal API gained two new calls sd_journal_has_runtime_files() and sd_journal_has_persistent_files() @@ -125,7 +123,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 229: in addition to timesyncd during early boot-up, so that it is enforced before the first process is spawned by systemd. Note that the logic in timesyncd remains, as it is more comprehensive and ensures - montonic clocks by maintaining a persistant timestamp file in + clock monotonicity by maintaining a persistent timestamp file in /var. Since /var is generally not available in earliest boot or the initrd, this part of the logic remains in timesyncd, and is not done by PID 1. @@ -154,18 +152,18 @@ CHANGES WITH 229: to configure hard and soft limits individually. * The various libsystemd APIs such as sd-bus or sd-event now publicly - expose support for gcc's __attribute__((cleanup())) C - extension. Specifically, for many object destructor functions - alternative versions whose names are suffixed with "p" have been - added, which take a pointer to a pointer to the object to destroy, - instead of just a pointer to the object itself. This is useful because - these destructor functions may be used directly as parameters to the - cleanup construct. Internally, systemd has been a heavy user of the - GCC extension since a long time, and with this change similar support - is now available to consumers of the library outside of systemd. Note + expose support for gcc's __attribute__((cleanup())) C extension. + Specifically, for many object destructor functions alternative + versions have been added that have names suffixed with "p" and take a + pointer to a pointer to the object to destroy, instead of just a + pointer to the object itself. This is useful because these destructor + functions may be used directly as parameters to the cleanup + construct. Internally, systemd has been a heavy user of this GCC + extension for a long time, and with this change similar support is + now available to consumers of the library outside of systemd. Note that by using this extension in your sources compatibility with old - and strictly ANSI compatible C compilers is lost. However, any gcc or - LLVM version of recent years have supported this extension. + and strictly ANSI compatible C compilers is lost. However, all gcc or + LLVM versions of recent years support this extension. * Timer units gained support for a new setting RandomizedDelaySec= that allows configuring some additional randomized delay to the configured diff --git a/src/systemd/sd-login.h b/src/systemd/sd-login.h index 3c10ff032f..e3ecbd8378 100644 --- a/src/systemd/sd-login.h +++ b/src/systemd/sd-login.h @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ int sd_peer_get_slice(int fd, char **slice); int sd_peer_get_user_slice(int fd, char **slice); /* Similar to sd_pid_get_machine_name(), but retrieves data about the - * peer of a a connected AF_UNIX socket */ + * peer of a connected AF_UNIX socket */ int sd_peer_get_machine_name(int fd, char **machine); /* Similar to sd_pid_get_cgroup(), but retrieves data about the peer |