Should ownerships and perms of Runtime/Logs/Cache directories be preserved between ExecStartPre's and ExecStart's ?

[fbuihuu]

This is a grey area as nothing in the documentation clearly describes what the expected behavior should be.

That might explain why the behavior changed a couple of times already: an attempt to make it persistent was done via 30c81ce in order to fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1508495 (which is likely to be re-opened BTW) and was later changed by 0bf05f0...

It would be nice if we could agree on definitive behavior for good.

[poettering]

hmm, yeah, @keszybz opinion?

[poettering]

/cc @taro-yamada @jcaamano

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/cc @yuwata

[fbuihuu]

Hi guys, can we please clarify this grey area ? Thanks.

[poettering]

I think what is configured should always win, i.e. be enforced every time we fork something off.

[fbuihuu]

OTOH it seems that users might expect that it should be done only once by PID1 before something is forked off.

[fbuihuu]

ping