Re: `systemd --system` as a viable way out of the systemd debate?
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@dbnbgs.smarden.org> writes:
> > What is the reason that one can't easily run logind, or even better a
> > systemd process running logind and possibly other services, under the
> > runsv program from the runit init scheme, or through /etc/inittab?
>
> I believe it's that logind relies on the cgroups setup that's done by
> systemd, and that's what systemd-shim takes care of.
Right. Specifically, logind uses the org.freedesktop.systemd1 DBus API
to configure "slices" and "scopes", which act like runtime-creatable and
runtime-configurable systemd units, including cgroup management. (Among
many other APIs.)
- Josh Triplett
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