From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:36:42 +0000 (-0400) Subject: NEWS: mention that logind is restartable X-Git-Tag: v234~54^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F6218%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git NEWS: mention that logind is restartable --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a49d13ce140..70f1c647760 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 234: gained support for configuration of GENEVE links, and IPv6 address labels. The [Network] section gained the new IPv6ProxyNDP= setting. - * .link files now understand the new Port= setting. + * .link files now understand a new Port= setting. * systemd-networkd's DHCP support gained support for DHCP option 119 (domain search list). @@ -78,6 +78,17 @@ CHANGES WITH 234: fallback was redundant and interfered with the [!UNAVAIL=return] suffix. See nss-resolve(8) for the recommended configuration. + * systemd-logind may now be restarted without losing state. It stores + the file descriptors for devices it manages in the system manager + using the FDSTORE= mechanim. Please note that further changes in + other components may be required to make use of this (for example + Xorg has code to listen for stops of systemd-logind and terminate + itself when logind is stopped or restarted, in order to avoid using + stale file descriptors for graphical devices, which is now + counterproductive and must be reverted in order for restarts of + systemd-logind to be safe. See + https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc48bd653c7e101.) + * All kernel install plugins are called with the environment variable KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID which is set to the machine ID given by /etc/machine-id. If the file is missing or empty, the variable is