On Mon, 30.06.14 19:52, Uoti Urpala (uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi) wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 12:38 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Sat, 28.06.14 18:15, Moviuro (movi...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > An idea would be to use units with many '@' or have systemd interpret the > > > string between '@' and '.service' as '@'-separated values (e.g. > > > unison@local_user@profile.service). > > > Hummm... So far the instancing was strictly one-dimensional from > > systemd's PoV. And I think I would prefer it like that, since it makes > > so many things easier. I mean, as you notice, one can always parse this > > from shell or so, if you want, so we can actually get away with not > > supporting anything more complex with systemd. > > Shouldn't just another '%x' format specifier or two for unit files be > enough to get most of the benefit, without changing any of the > underlying architecture? As in something like "%?5?" meaning "interpret > the instance name as a whatever-delimited list, and place the 5th > element of the list here".
Well, I am not thrilled by that idea, but I'd probably accept a patch that does this if it uses a very convincing syntax and doesn't try to be too generic. For example, it should enforce one clear separator syntax, and clearly map to %i and %I. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
