scope: tiny cleanup: UNIT(s) -> u

[thirdparty/systemd.git] / NEWS

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@@ -1957,12 +1957,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 234:
           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
+        * 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
-          empty and BOOT_DIR_ABS is the path of a temporary directory which is
-          removed after all the plugins exit. So, if KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID
-          is empty, all plugins should not put anything in BOOT_DIR_ABS.
+          /etc/machine-id. If the machine ID could not be determined,
+          $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID will be empty. Plugins should not put
+          anything in the entry directory (passed as the second argument) if
+          $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID is empty. For backwards compatiblity, a
+          temporary directory is passed as the entry directory and removed
+          after all the plugins exit.
 
         Contributions from: Adrian Heine né Lang, Aggelos Avgerinos, Alexander
         Kurtz, Alexandros Frantzis, Alexey Brodkin, Alex Lu, Amir Pakdel, Amir
@@ -5746,7 +5748,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 214:
         * Socket units gained a new Symlinks= setting. It takes a list
           of symlinks to create to file system sockets or FIFOs
           created by the specific Unix sockets. This is useful to
-          manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same life-cycle as
+          manage symlinks to socket nodes with the same lifecycle as
           the socket itself.
 
         * The /dev/log socket and /dev/initctl FIFO have been moved to
@@ -6054,7 +6056,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 212:
           users who are logged out cannot continue to consume IPC
           resources. This covers SysV memory, semaphores and message
           queues as well as POSIX shared memory and message
-          queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no life-cycle
+          queues. Traditionally, SysV and POSIX IPC had no lifecycle
           limits. With this functionality, that is corrected. This may
           be turned off by using the RemoveIPC= switch of logind.conf.
 
@@ -6204,7 +6206,7 @@ CHANGES WITH 211:
           systemd-networkd.
 
         * The sd-bus.h bus API gained a new sd_bus_track object for
-          tracking the life-cycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is
+          tracking the lifecycle of bus peers. Note that sd-bus.h is
           still not a public API though (unless you specify
           --enable-kdbus on the configure command line, which however
           voids your warranty and you get no API stability guarantee).