Instead of generic "Starting..." and "Started" messages for all unit use
type-dependent messages. For example, mounts will announce "Mounting..."
and "Mounted".
Add status messages to units of types that used to be entirely silent
(automounts, sockets, targets, devices). For unit types whose jobs are
instantaneous, report only the job completion, not the starting event.
Socket units with non-instantaneous jobs are rare (Exec*= is not used
often in socket units), so I chose not to print the starting messages
for them either.
This will hopefully give people better understanding of the boot.
The alignment of the "[ OK ]" and "[FAILED]" status marks to the right
side of the terminal makes it difficult to link them with the messages
on the left if your console is wide.
I considered the options:
1. Align them to the 80th column regardless of the console width.
Disadvantage - either:
- truncating messages needlessly, not using available space; or
- If the message is long, write the mark over it. => ugly
2. Write them to the 80th column for short messages,
and further to the right for longer ones.
Disadvantage:
- jagged look
3. Write the marks on the left, before the message.
Disadvantage:
- Breaks tradition from RHL.
Advantages:
+ slightly simpler code
+ Will annoy holy-traditionalists.
I chose option 3.
BTW, Debian now uses similar marks on the left with its makefile-style
boot.
Special values of the "status" argument to status_vprintf are:
NULL - no status mark, no message indentation
"" - no status mark, message indented as if the mark was there
The red "[ABORT]" for a dependency failure is too scary.
It suggests a crash. And it suggests a problem with the unit itself.
Change it to a yellow "[DEPEND]" message. The color communicates the
level of seriousness better.
The pointer to the end of the string was not advanced after adding
the "cgroups-missing" taint. If "local-hwclock" was detected too,
it would overwrite the previous string.
With 'e' always pointing to the end of the string, removing the last
delimiter is easier.
Use 'read -r' everywhere to consider backslashes as parts of the input line.
Single-quote the arguments to 'compgen -W' to avoid immediate expansion.
compgen itself will expand the argument.
Fixes a possible reason for "Failed to issue method call: Unknown unit"
after requesting completion.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814966
File names in /etc, /run, /usr/lib are sorted/overridden by basename.
Sorting things like "/dev/null" with the basename "null" in the hash
of config files breaks the ordering and the overriding logic.
If the inode nr for each file is available in the pack file we can
easily detect replaced files (like they result from package upgrades)
which we can then skip to readahead.
