ExecStartPre= may now leave data in /tmp that ExecStart= of
the same service can still access). When a service is
stopped its temporary directories are immediately deleted
- (normal clean-up with tmpfiles still is done in addition to
+ (normal clean-up with tmpfiles is still done in addition to
this though).
* By default, systemd will now set a couple of sysctl
be reasonably safe, and good defaults for all new systems.
* The predictable network naming logic may now be turned off
- with a new kernel command line switch: net.ifnames=0
+ with a new kernel command line switch: net.ifnames=0.
* A new libsystemd-bus module has been added that implements a
pretty complete D-Bus client library. For details see:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009797.html
- * journald will not explicitly flush the journal files to disk
- the latest 5min after each write. This will also mark the
- files as offline then until the next read. This should
- increase reliability. The synchronization delay can be
- configured via SyncIntervalSec= in journald.conf.
+ * journald will now explicitly flush the journal files to disk
+ at the latest 5min after each write. The file will then also
+ be marked offline until the next write. This should increase
+ reliability in case of a crash. The synchronization delay
+ can be configured via SyncIntervalSec= in journald.conf.
* There's a new remote-fs-setup.target unit that can be used
to pull in specific services when at least one remote file
from. This complements sockets.target with a similar
purpose for socket units.
+ * libudev gained a new call udev_device_set_attribute_value()
+ to set sysfs attributes of a device.
+
+ * The udev daemon now sets the default number of worker
+ processes executed in parallel based on the number of available
+ CPUs instead of the amount of available RAM. This is supposed
+ to provide a more reliable default and limit a too agressive
+ paralellism for setups with 1000s of devices connected.
+
Contributions from: Auke Kok, Colin Walters, Cristian
RodrÃguez, Daniel Buch, Dave Reisner, Frederic Crozat, Hannes
Reinecke, Harald Hoyer, Jan Alexander Steffens, Jan