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  • Committer: Package Import Robot
  • Author(s): Tollef Fog Heen, Tollef Fog Heen, Michael Biebl
  • Date: 2012-04-03 19:59:17 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.10) (6.1.3 experimental)
  • Revision ID: package-import@ubuntu.com-20120403195917-l532urrbg4pkreas
Tags: 44-1
http://bugs.debian.org/664364
http://bugs.debian.org/663219
http://bugs.debian.org/663323
[ Tollef Fog Heen ]
* New upstream version.
  - Backport 3492207: journal: PAGE_SIZE is not known on ppc and other
    archs
  - Backport 5a2a2a1: journal: react with immediate rotation to a couple
    of more errors
  - Backport 693ce21: util: never follow symlinks in rm_rf_children()
    Fixes CVE-2012-1174, closes: #664364
* Drop output message from init-functions hook, it's pointless.
* Only rmdir /lib/init/rw if it exists.
* Explicitly order debian-fixup before sysinit.target to prevent a
  possible race condition with the creation of sockets.  Thanks to
  Michael Biebl for debugging this.
* Always restart the initctl socket on upgrades, to mask sysvinit
  removing it.

[ Michael Biebl ]
* Remove workaround for non-interactive sessions from pam config again.
* Create compat /dev/initctl symlink in case we are upgrading from a system
  running a newer version of sysvinit (using /run/initctl) and sysvinit is
  replaced with systemd-sysv during the upgrade. Closes: #663219
* Install new man pages.
* Build-Depend on valac (>= 0.12) instead of valac-0.12. Closes: #663323

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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
 
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
 
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
 
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<!--
 
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  This file is part of systemd.
 
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  Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
 
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  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 
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  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 
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  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 
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  (at your option) any later version.
 
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  systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 
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  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 
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  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 
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  General Public License for more details.
 
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  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 
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  along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
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-->
 
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<refentry id="sd-login">
 
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        <refentryinfo>
 
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                <title>sd-login</title>
 
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                <productname>systemd</productname>
 
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                <authorgroup>
 
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                        <author>
 
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                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
 
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                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
 
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                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
 
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                                <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
 
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                        </author>
 
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                </authorgroup>
 
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        </refentryinfo>
 
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        <refmeta>
 
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                <refentrytitle>sd-login</refentrytitle>
 
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                <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
 
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        </refmeta>
 
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        <refnamediv>
 
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                <refname>sd-login</refname>
 
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                <refpurpose>APIs for
 
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                tracking logins</refpurpose>
 
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        </refnamediv>
 
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        <refsynopsisdiv>
 
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                <funcsynopsis>
 
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                        <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;systemd/sd-login.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
 
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                </funcsynopsis>
 
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                <cmdsynopsis>
 
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                        <command>pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd-login</command>
 
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                </cmdsynopsis>
 
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        </refsynopsisdiv>
 
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        <refsect1>
 
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                <title>Description</title>
 
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                <para><filename>sd-login.h</filename> provides APIs to
 
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                introspect and monitor seat, login session and user
 
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                status information on the local system. </para>
 
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                <para>See <ulink
 
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                url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat">Multi-Seat
 
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                on Linux</ulink> for an introduction into multi-seat
 
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                support on Linux, the background for this set of APIs.</para>
 
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                <para>Note that these APIs only allow purely passive access
 
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                and monitoring of seats, sessions and users. To
 
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                actively make changes to the seat configuration,
 
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                terminate login sessions, or switch session on a seat
 
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                you need to utilize the D-Bus API of
 
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                systemd-logind, instead.</para>
 
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                <para>These functions synchronously access data in
 
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                <filename>/proc</filename>,
 
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                <filename>/sys/fs/cgroup</filename> and
 
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                <filename>/run</filename>. All of these are virtual
 
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                file systems, hence the runtime cost of the accesses
 
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                is relatively cheap.</para>
 
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                <para>It is possible (and often a very good choice) to
 
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                mix calls to the synchronous interface of
 
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                <filename>sd-login.h</filename> with the asynchronous
 
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                D-Bus interface of systemd-logind. However, if this is
 
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                done you need to think a bit about possible races
 
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                since the stream of events from D-Bus and from
 
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                <filename>sd-login.h</filename> interfaces such as the
 
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                login monitor are asynchronous and not ordered against
 
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                each other.</para>
 
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                <para>If the functions return string arrays, these are
 
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                generally NULL terminated and need to be freed by the
 
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                caller with the libc
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>free</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 
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                call after use, including the strings referenced
 
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                therein. Similar, individual strings returned need to
 
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                be freed, as well.</para>
 
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                <para>As a special exception, instead of an empty
 
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                string array NULL may be returned, which should be
 
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                treated equivalent to an empty string array.</para>
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_pid_get_session</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_uid_get_state</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_session_is_active</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_seat_get_active</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_get_seats</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_login_monitor_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 
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                for more information about the functions
 
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                implemented.</para>
 
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                <title>Notes</title>
 
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                <para>These APIs are implemented as shared library,
 
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                <literal>libsystemd-login</literal>
 
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                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 
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                file.</para>
 
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        <refsect1>
 
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                <title>See Also</title>
 
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                <para>
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_pid_get_session</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_uid_get_state</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_session_is_active</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_seat_get_active</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_get_seats</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_login_monitor_new</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-readahead</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
 
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                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pkg-config</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 
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                </para>
 
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</refentry>