Chris Down

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icon company @Facebook icon location London, England icon location I keep @facebook running as part of Meta's Linux Kernel team, and also help maintain @systemd. I mostly work on memory management and cgroups.

Results 46 issues of Chris Down

exfat path normalisation results in deleting/recopying paths with trailing dots

Hi there! Most modern Android devices use exfat/sdfat on the backing device. These filesystems strip trailing dots on path components as stripped as part of path resolution. ``` % dd...

Check serial time as part of disable rejection

It's possible (but highly unlikely) right now we may race on disable/enable if there was a lot of clipboard spam. It would be better to record the current X server...

feature request
code quality

Support rofi-script in new C version

feature request

core/service: Add ReloadSignalRequireHandler to require signal handler

8 comment

We currently blindly send the configured reload signal (e.g. SIGHUP or SIGUSR1) to the main service PID for notify-reload units, even if the service hasn't installed a userspace handler. This...

documentation
pid1
reviewed/needs-rework 🔨
util-lib

Allow services to be augmented by config file

core: Prevent corruption from stale alias state on daemon-reload

7 comment

During daemon-reload, when a unit becomes an alias to another unit, deserialising the alias's stale serialised state corrupts the canonical unit's live runtime state. Consider this scenario: 1. Before reload:...

documentation
pid1
systemctl
reviewed/needs-rework 🔨
tests