Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 9, 2016 10:04 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: Distributors ponder a systemd change by anselm
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

Then why does gpg-agent reread the configuration file if it receives SIGHUP? And that's just the first manpage I opened...

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Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 9, 2016 11:21 UTC (Thu) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152) [Link] (2 responses)

Because gpg-agent is a daemon although it's invoked by the user and not by init.

Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 9, 2016 11:24 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (1 responses)

Hence the parent assertion that "Daemons, by definition, have no business running in user sessions" is wrong.

Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 9, 2016 19:52 UTC (Thu) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152) [Link]

Well there can always be exceptions to a rule, the most dangerous words are "always" and "never" :-). However something like ssh-agent should be a prime candidate for the systemd socket activation feature, however that might create problems on a multi-user system (I don't know since I have not looked at ssh-agent at all).