on a partition to ignore it during automatic discovery.
* Two new GPT type UUIDs have been added for automatic root
- partition discovery, for 32bit and 64bit ARM. This is not
+ partition discovery, for 32-bit and 64-bit ARM. This is not
particularly useful for discovering the root directory on
these architectures during bare-metal boots (since UEFI is
not common there), but still very useful to allow booting of
users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC
resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message
queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message
- queues. Traditionally SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle
- limits, with this functionality this is corrected. This may
- be turned off using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf.
+ queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle
+ limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may
+ be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf.
* The systemd-machine-id-setup and tmpfiles tools gained a
--root= switch to operate on a specific root directory,
this is appropriate.
* systemd-udevd will now run in a disassociated mount
- namespace. To mount directories from udev rules make sure to
+ namespace. To mount directories from udev rules, make sure to
pull in mount units via SYSTEMD_WANTS properties.
* The kdbus support gained support for uploading policy into
DefaultTimerAccuracySec= has been added that controls the
default AccuracySec= setting of .timer units.
- * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled
+ * Timer units gained a new WakeSystem= switch. If enabled,
timers configured this way will cause the system to resume
from system suspend (if the system supports that, which most
do these days).
- * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled
+ * Timer units gained a new Persistent= switch. If enabled,
timers configured this way will save to disk when they have
been last triggered. This information is then used on next
reboot to possible execute overdue timer events, that
* systemd-gpt-auto-generator is now able to discover /srv and
root partitions in addition to /home and swap partitions. It
also supports LUKS-encrypted partitions now. With this in
- place automatic discovery of partitions to mount following
+ place, automatic discovery of partitions to mount following
the Discoverable Partitions Specification
(http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec)
is now a lot more complete. This allows booting without
/etc/fstab and without root= on the kernel command line on
- appropriately prepared systems.
+ systems prepared appropriately.
* systemd-nspawn gained a new --image= switch which allows
booting up disk images and Linux installations on any block
* logind is now a lot more aggressive when suspending the
machine due to a closed laptop lid. Instead of acting only
- on the lid close action it will continuously watch the lid
+ on the lid close action, it will continuously watch the lid
status and act on it. This is useful for laptops where the
power button is on the outside of the chassis so that it can
be reached without opening the lid (such as the Lenovo
- Yoga). On those machines logind will now immediately
+ Yoga). On those machines, logind will now immediately
re-suspend the machine if the power button has been
accidentally pressed while the laptop was suspended and in a
backpack or similar.
* The DeviceAllow= setting in unit files now supports a syntax
to whitelist an entire group of devices node majors at once,
based on the /proc/devices listing. For example, with the
- string "char-pts" it is now possible to whitelist all
+ string "char-pts", it is now possible to whitelist all
current and future pseudo-TTYs at once.
* sd-event learned a new "post" event source. Event sources of
enabled/disabled using systemctl. It still is enabled by
default however.
- * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn the
+ * When creating a veth interface pair with systemd-nspawn, the
host side will now be prefixed with "vb-" if
--network-bridge= is used, and with "ve-" if --network-veth
- is used. This way it is easy to distinguish these cases on
+ is used. This way, it is easy to distinguish these cases on
the host, for example to apply different configuration to
them with systemd-networkd.
* The compatibility libraries for libsystemd-journal.so,
libsystem-id128.so, libsystemd-login.so and
libsystemd-daemon.so do not make use of IFUNC
- anymore. Instead we now build libsystemd.so multiple times
+ anymore. Instead, we now build libsystemd.so multiple times
under these alternative names. This means that the footprint
is drastically increased, but given that these are
- transitional compatibility libraries this should not matter
+ transitional compatibility libraries, this should not matter
much. This change has been made necessary to support the ARM
platform for these compatibility libraries, as the ARM
toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain
* systemd-nspawn gained a new --personality= switch for
setting the kernel personality for the container. This is
- useful when running a 32bit container on a 64bit host. A
- similar option Personality= is now also available in service
- units.
+ useful when running a 32-bit container on a 64-bit host. A
+ similar option Personality= is now also available for service
+ units to use.
* logind will now also track a "Desktop" identifier for each
session which encodes the desktop environment of it. This is
* For usage together with SystemCallFilter=, a new
SystemCallErrorNumber= setting has been introduced that
- allows configuration of a system error number to return on
- filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the
+ allows configuration of a system error number to be returned
+ on filtered system calls, instead of immediately killing the
process. Also, SystemCallArchitectures= has been added to
limit access to system calls of a particular architecture
(in order to turn off support for unused secondary
dir: %_presetdir.
* journald will now warn if it ca not forward a message to the
- syslog daemon because it's socket is full.
+ syslog daemon because its socket is full.
* timedated will no longer write or process /etc/timezone,
except on Debian. As we do not support late mounted /usr
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