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
- couldn't take place because the system was powered off. This
- enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units.
+ could not take place because the system was powered off.
+ This enables simple anacron-like behaviour for timer units.
* systemctl's "list-timers" will now also list the time a
timer unit was last triggered in addition to the next time
* 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 shouldn't 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 isn't really at the same level as the toolchain
+ toolchain is not really at the same level as the toolchain
for other architectures like x86 and does not support
IFUNC. Please make sure to use --enable-compat-libs only
during a transitional period!
merged them into a single library, libsystemd.so, which
provides all symbols. The reason for this is cyclic
dependencies, as these libraries tend to use each other's
- symbols. So far, we've managed to workaround that by linking
+ symbols. So far, we have managed to workaround that by linking
a copy of a good part of our code into each of these
libraries again and again, which, however, makes certain
things hard to do, like sharing static variables. Also, it
* 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
* A new tmpfiles.d(5) command "m" has been introduced which
may be used to change the owner/group/access mode of a file
- or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it doesn't.
+ or directory if it exists, but do nothing if it does not.
* This release removes high-level support for the
MemorySoftLimit= cgroup setting. The underlying kernel
cgroup attribute memory.soft_limit= is currently badly
designed and likely to be removed from the kernel API in its
- current form, hence we shouldn't expose it for now.
+ current form, hence we should not expose it for now.
* The memory.use_hierarchy cgroup attribute is now enabled for
all cgroups systemd creates in the memory cgroup
* InaccessibleDirectories= and ReadOnlyDirectories= now take
paths that are optionally prefixed with "-" to indicate that
- it should not be considered a failure if they don't exist.
+ it should not be considered a failure if they do not exist.
* journalctl -o (and similar commands) now understands a new
output mode "short-precise", it is similar to "short" but
databases to pre-generate dead device nodes based on meta
information contained in kernel modules, so that these would
be auto-loaded on access rather then at boot. As this
- doesn't really have much to do with the exposing actual
+ does not really have much to do with the exposing actual
kernel devices to userspace this has always been slightly
alien in the udev codebase. Following the new scheme kmod
will now generate a runtime snippet for tmpfiles from the
* 'systemd-analyze dot' gained the ability to filter for
specific units via shell-style globs, to create smaller,
- more useful graphs. I.e. it's now possible to create simple
+ more useful graphs. I.e. it is now possible to create simple
graphs of all the dependencies between only target units, or
of all units that Avahi has dependencies with.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
* Auke Kok's bootchart implementation has been added to the
- systemd tree. It's an optional component that can graph the
- boot in quite some detail. It's one of the best bootchart
+ systemd tree. It is an optional component that can graph the
+ boot in quite some detail. It is one of the best bootchart
implementations around and minimal in its code and
dependencies.
PolicyKit-less systems. Quite frankly this should have been
this way since day one. It is absolutely our intention to
make systemd work fine on PolicyKit-less systems, and we
- consider it a bug if something doesn't work as it should if
+ consider it a bug if something does not work as it should if
PolicyKit is not around.
* For embedded systems it is now possible to build udev and
* The bash completion logic is now available for journalctl
too.
- * We don't mount the "cpuset" controller anymore together with
+ * We do not mount the "cpuset" controller anymore together with
"cpu" and "cpuacct", as "cpuset" groups generally cannot be
started if no parameters are assigned to it. "cpuset" hence
broke code that assumed it it could create "cpu" groups and
CHANGES WITH 190:
- * Whenever a unit changes state we'll now log this to the
+ * Whenever a unit changes state we will now log this to the
journal and show along the unit's own log output in
"systemctl status".
* There's now a new RPM macro definition for the system preset
dir: %_presetdir.
- * journald will now warn if it can't forward a message to the
- syslog daemon because it's socket is full.
+ * journald will now warn if it ca not forward a message to the
+ 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
* systemctl will now warn you if .mount units generated from
/etc/fstab are out of date due to changes in fstab that
- haven't been read by systemd yet.
+ have not been read by systemd yet.
* systemd is now suitable for usage in initrds. Dracut has
already been updated to make use of this. With this in place
* We now mount /tmp as tmpfs by default, but this can be
masked and /etc/fstab can override it.
- * Since udisks doesn't make use of /media anymore we are not
+ * Since udisks does not make use of /media anymore we are not
mounting a tmpfs on it anymore.
* journalctl gained a new --local switch to only interleave
folks
* We now refuse non-UTF8 strings used in various configuration
- and unit files. This is done to ensure we don't pass invalid
+ and unit files. This is done to ensure we do not pass invalid
data over D-Bus or expose it elsewhere.
* Register Mimo USB Screens as suitable for automatic seat
death, since fanotify() will not see accesses done by blkid,
or fsck.
- * Don't show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless
+ * Do not show kernel threads in systemd-cgls anymore, unless
requested with new -k switch.
Contributions from: Dan Horák, Kay Sievers, Lennart
--with-rootprefix= to follow the naming used by udev and
kmod
- * Unless specified otherwise we'll now install to /usr instead
+ * Unless specified otherwise we will now install to /usr instead
of /usr/local by default.
* Processes with '@' in argv[0][0] are now excluded from the
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