]] cameron > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If this is not required by systemd, why is it done by sd_notify ? > >> > > It's not. > > You obviously did not read the code. It is. Here is a G+ convo with > Lennart I had: > > > As a sender you only have to set SCM_CREDENTIALS manually if you > > want to fake it (for which you need privs however). > > sd_notify() basically impersonates the process. You only need to set > SCM manually if you are writing an external library. If someone is > just doing it in the daemon, the kernel will set SCM_CREDENTIALS > automatically.
You seem to be confusing systemd-notify(1) with sd_notify(3). sd_notify(3) is the library call that's called by the daemon itself. systemd-notify(1) is a command line tool to «Notify service manager about start-up completion and other daemon status changes». -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
