Systemd Notifications Support Being Worked On For Wayland's Weston

[hoohoo]

The Borg systemd is relentless. Resistance is futile. It will subsume your uniqueness.

[erendorn]

Your comment is equally confused as the phoronix article was confusing to start with.

This patch is not about systemd notifying weston of things. It has nothing to do with what desktop environments usually calls notifications. This is weston notifying systemd of it's current state and also supporting the Watchdog functionality that can optionally be enabled in a systemd unit file.

Since systemd doesn't just launch a service and hope everything goes well after that, it actually keeps track of things. For example if you want systemd to keep pinging your service and if your service freezes (and stops replying to the ping) then have systemd restart your service you can do so by supporting the sd_notify API for watchdog and enabling the Watchdog directive et.al. in your service file.

For a longer and better description of this see http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/watchdog.html

Now go implement this in your favourite daemon that does not yet support the systemd watchdog api so we can enable Watchdog in all service files and have systems that automatically repairs themselves quickly without having to login and manually restart services causing long downtimes!

my bad, thanks for the correction