[libvirt PATCH 2/8] Revert "remote: move timeout arg into sysconf file"

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 13:00 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 08:53:39PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > There is nothing really systemd-specific about passing extra
> > arguments to daemons so it's reasonable, although not currently the
> > case, that startup scripts written for other init systems might want
> > to source these sysconf files; for those init systems, which likely
> > do not support socket activation, making the daemon quit after a
> > timeout has expired is probably not a good idea.
> > 
> > More generally, the sysconf files should not reflect the default
> > behavior, but only contain overrides explicitly put in place by the
> > admin; now that we have a mechanism to disable timeouts regardless
> > of the default set in the service file, that argument for having the
> > default timeout in the sysconf file is moot as well.
> 
> The effect on this though is that --timeout arg now has to be
> specified twice so we'll get a running process of
> 
>    "libvirtd --timeout 120 --timeout 0"
> 
> which I find quite unappealing, so I'm not really in favour of
> this revert, especially as we don't actually use the sysconf
> files from other init systems

I don't think it's a big deal, especially considering that most
people will not end up actually changing the default, but I'm okay
with flipping this around and moving --timeout from the service
file to the ARGS variable in the corresponding sysconf file for all
daemons instead, especially since Jano pointed out that a lot of
sysconf files already look like that on a Fedora installation.

Would that work for you?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization