Detecting the init system in use

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 13 December 2017 at 22:15, Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-12-13 at 22:03 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
>> Robie Basak [2017-12-13 17:57 +0000]:
>> > 1) Fix systemd on Trusty so that testing for /run/systemd/system
>> > works
>> > again. This will probably need to remove /run/systemd/system
>> > correctly
>> > on postinst as part of the fix. This will unbreak MAAS and snapd
>> > working
>> > together.
>>
>> It may work  to adjust the upstart job that starts the deputy init
>> systemd to
>> create its own mount namespace, do a shared bind-mount of the host's
>> /run/systemd/ its own namespace, and then do a private tmpfs mount on
>> /run/systemd/system/ . Then only pid 1 itself should see
>> /run/systemd/system/.
>> This of course might break systemd-y things that try to read this,
>> but usually
>> there's not much in this dir anyway.
>>
>> I haven't tried this, just as a thought for experimentation.
>
> I suspect this might confuse snapd/snap-confine for manipulating snap
> mount namespaces. CC'ing zyga to comment.

My suspicion was that indeed this would break using snaps classical
(unconfined?) on trusty.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.