but are only created programmatically using the bus interfaces of
systemd. They are named similar to filenames. A unit whose name
ends in <literal>.scope</literal> refers to a scope unit. Scopes
- units manage a set of system processes. Unlike service units scope
+ units manage a set of system processes. Unlike service units, scope
units manage externally created processes, and do not fork off
processes on its own.</para>
be used to easily launch a command in a new scope unit from the
command line.</para>
+ <para>See the <ulink
+ url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/">New
+ Control Group Interfaces</ulink> for an introduction on how to make
+ use of scope units from programs.</para>
+
<para>Unless <varname>DefaultDependencies=false</varname>
is used, scope units will implicitly have dependencies of
type <varname>Conflicts=</varname> and
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-run</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.cgroup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.resource-control</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.directives</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>