Post #572602
2026-03-05 08:44 UTC
5️⃣ Here's the 5th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v260 release of systemd. #systemd260 #systemd
One of the fundamental operations one can execute on a systemd service is "reload", i.e. asking the service to reload its configuration, for example via "systemctl reload foobar.service". What precisely this triggers in the service code, is up to the developers to decide, but the assumption is that it rescans and parses its configuration files, without any interruptions…
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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-05 08:49
…of being accessible. Since v247 the service credential concept exists for passing short data, secrets and configuration snippets into services. And since v251 there's per-service confext support, i.e. where the mount namespace a service runs in can be put together from overlayfs of one or more confext DDIs. Both of these are configuration too, in one way or another. So far, "systemctl reload" didn't care about them: credentials and confexts were only re-read on service restart, not on reload.