From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:04:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: NEWS: note about reexec on update, for sd-executor
X-Git-Tag: v255-rc3~2^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F30153%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

NEWS: note about reexec on update, for sd-executor
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 79593b967db..3fd42aa2820 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -68,7 +68,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 255 in spe:
           semantics via posix_spawn(3), and it immediately execs a new internal
           binary, systemd-executor, that receives the configuration to apply
           via memfd, and sets up the process before exec'ing the target
-          executable.
+          executable. The systemd-executor binary is pinned by file descriptor
+          by each manager instance (system and users), and the reference is
+          updated on daemon-reexec - it is thus important to reexec all running
+          manager instances when the systemd-executor and/or libsystemd*
+          libraries are updated on the filesystem.
 
         * Most of the internal process tracking is being changed to use PIDFDs
           instead of PIDs when the kernel supports it, to improve robustness