On Mi, 04.07.18 11:24, Dimitri John Ledkov ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi, > > On 4 July 2018 at 10:22, Lennart Poettering <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mi, 04.07.18 07:24, Paul Menzel ([email protected]) > > wrote: > > > >> Dear systemd folks, > >> > >> > >> Debian uses a shell script as `/init` in initrd, and I like to extend that, > >> to set the time stamps for the initrd execution. > > > > This is part of the data that is serialized during the transition from > > the systemd instance in the initrd to the systemd instance on the > > host. The serialization is internal to systemd, and this is unlikely > > to change, as it contains numerous bits of information that are > > fragile and sensitive as the serialization really contains the full > > service manager state with all its units and so on. > > > >> Is it possible to set that value from a shell script? If yes, could you > >> please tell me how? > > > > It's not, and quite frankly I am not enthusiastic about the idea to > > make this configurable... > > At one point, I was considering to serialize just enough data to add > these in the initramfs-tools (and/or systemd) as Debian specific > patches to start supporting these measurements. > And have a distro patch in systemd to read these measurements from a > separately serialized file on boot-up.
Thinking about this a bit more: it would probably be OK to make PID 1 look for some env var for the timestamps and read them from there. if you'd prep a patch for that, I'd look into it. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
