[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] systemd support in openssh-server

[Michael Biebl]

Am 11.02.2014 00:32, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> I also wonder why the following check was added:
> 
> ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/test -c /dev/null
> 
> Why is this needed? Seems rather odd to me. With devtmpfs being
> mandatory (in systemd/udev) nowadays, /dev/null is guaranteed to exist.
> Do you remember why this check was added? Afaics it doesn't seem
> necessary anymore nowadays.

If you really want to keep this check, you might consider using a
Condition test [1] like this:

[Unit]
ConditionPathExists=/dev/null
...

Granted, this doesn't check whether /dev/null is a character device. But
it is a much more lightweight check (doesn't need to execute a binary)
and I'm having a hard time finding a scenario where /dev/null is
anything but a character device

Cheers,
Michael


[1] man 5 systemd.unit

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