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authorAnita Zhang <the.anitazha@gmail.com>2019-11-04 18:29:55 -0800
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2019-11-07 08:34:53 +0100
commit3e1db806b0c18fd6138886ce67fac2655f09caef (patch)
tree0591ac7ab4d6261cb2690fe8b4aa17333442180d /NEWS
parent8069017a0f5845ea3e6987e29f98546cdd34b24e (diff)
downloadsystemd-3e1db806b0c18fd6138886ce67fac2655f09caef.tar.gz
core: change top-level drop-in from -.service.d to service.d
Discussed in #13743, the -.service semantic conflicts with the existing root mount and slice names, making this feature not uniformly extensible to all types. Change the name to be <type>.d instead. Updating to this format also extends the top-level dropin to unit types.
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@@ -33,10 +33,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 244 in spe:
during early boot, so in practice this change has very little
effect.)
- * The special -.service.d dropin directory may be used to add
- configuration that affects all services. The "-.service" service name
- is now disallowed (though hopefully no one would use such a service
- name. -.mount gives us enough grief.)
+ * Unit files now support top level dropin directories of the form
+ <unit_type>.d/ (e.g. service.d/) that may be used to add configuration
+ that affects all corresponding unit files.
* The RuntimeMaxSec= setting is now supported by scopes, not just
.service units. This is particularly useful for PAM sessions which