X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=3d323cfb68267f8c9476b33da7e2c9ae832d6106;hp=06f1fc80cdc749902e629f71f72ea8a73f397800;hb=7b6ffe6395e164016636530c2aedaf3f4f9a7830;hpb=2055a4de39bdf062645a7a58b50aae029df80857 diff --git a/README b/README index 06f1fc80c..3d323cfb6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ provide a subset of the interfaces of systemd 219. To contribute to elogind, fork the current source code from github: - https://github.com/andywingo/elogind + https://github.com/elogind/elogind Send a pull request for the changes you like. @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ To chat about elogind: Finally, bug reports: - https://github.com/andywingo/elogind/issues + https://github.com/elogind/elogind/issues Why bother? ----------- @@ -77,21 +77,26 @@ of . Libelogind just implements login-related functionality. It also provides the sd-bus API. -Unlike systemd, whose logind arranges to run user sessions in cgroups -via RPC calls to systemd, in elogind there is no systemd so there are -no cgroups. This has a few implications: +Unlike systemd, whose logind arranges to manage resources for user +sessions via RPC calls to systemd, in elogind there is no systemd so +there is no global cgroup-based resource management. This has a few +implications: * Elogind does not create "slices" for users. Elogind will not record that users are associated with slices. - * Systemd's logind waits for all user jobs to stop before recording - that a user's session has gone away. Since we have no cgroups, - elogind just removes the session directly when pam_elogind.so - indicates the user has logged out. - * The /run/systemd/slices directory will always be empty. - * Support for lingering is not so great. + * Elogind does not have the concept of a "scope", internally, as + it's the same as a session. Any API that refers to scopes will + always return an error code. + +On the other hand, elogind does use a similar strategy to systemd in +that it places processes in a private cgroup for organizational +purposes, without installing any controllers (see +http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/cgroups-vs-cgroups.html). This +allows elogind to map arbitrary processes to sessions, even if the +process does the usual double-fork to be reparented to PID 1. Elogind does not manage virtual terminals.