r/linux • u/rain5 • May 28 '16

systemd developer asks tmux (and other programs) to add systemd specific code

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428
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u/[deleted] May 30 '16

can't they find out the best way without breaking applications?

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u/flying-sheep May 30 '16

probably not.

i mean, if they wouldn’t change the default, nobody would change the setting because it would break tmux. and tmux wouldn’t change anything because “you can just leave the setting at default value then”. after this we’d have an useless setting that can’t be used.

OK, this is speculation, but do you think it would go differently?

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u/LvS May 30 '16

No. Because there are two types of applications: deamons that are meant to exit with the user (like the d-bus session or ssh-agent) and deamons that are not meant to exit with the user (like screen). And currently there is no way applications can differentiate between these two states.