[arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

[Guus Snijders]

Op 9 feb. 2016 17:52 schreef "Damjan Georgievski" <gdamjan at gmail.com>:
>
> On 9 February 2016 at 17:34, Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Op 9 feb. 2016 17:27 schreef "Michał Zegan" <webczat_200 at poczta.onet.pl
>:
> >>
> >
> >> Although you have to write
> >> unit files, you can start scripts, so you do not really lose
> >> flexibility. Also systemd's isolation capabilities are superior, there
> >> are some things you currently cannot do from scripts, like
> >> PrivateTmp=yes and stuff.
> >
> > Isolation is AFAIK based on cgroups, not the easiest subject, but
certainly
> > not impossible to implement.
>
> not impossible, if you reimplement systemd :)

;)

> > PrivateTmp: Does that more then setting $TEMP to a custom value?
> >
> > I'm just being curious here.
>
> yes, it creates a filesystem/mount namespace for the process(es) and
mount's a
> /tmp/systemd-private-xxxx/ directory as /tmp. from the point of view
> of the process it will never see
> anything else from the outer /tmp

Ok, that is a nice trick.

Mvg, Guus Snijders