On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 17:28 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ... If instead the socket is listening but not really accepting and > > processing requests, then yes, you can have a deadlock. > > > So socket activation is not transparent by any means and needs to be > > handled very carefully in terms of circular dependencies as they may > > actually introduce deadlocks that weren't there before. > > Yeah. Another way in which socket activation is not transparent is that > code might try to determine whether the service is running by seeing > whether a connection attempt succeeds. In such a case, having the > service autostart is absolutely *not* the desired outcome. Both mysql Why not? If the service is enabled but the daemon not currently running, is it so terrible for a connection test to cause the daemon to start? Remember, in systemd logic 'service enabled with socket activation, daemon not currently running' is effectively an 'on' state, not an 'off' state. If you wanted the database to be 'off' you should have the service disabled, and in that case, the ping test wouldn't cause the daemon to start. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
