Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
53059edcb4
The path is fairly long and by embedding it in the message, we get a longer
data section in our binary. By using %s, we can make the template strings
shorter, deduplicating bytes in our binary. Those are error messages, i.e. by
definition they are only used very rarely, so it's completely fine if printf
does a bit more work when generating the message.
$ strings build/systemd-random-seed.0 | rg '/var/lib/systemd/random-seed'
/var/lib/systemd/random-seed
Failed to open /var/lib/systemd/random-seed for writing: %m
Failed to open /var/lib/systemd/random-seed for reading: %m
Failed to open /var/lib/systemd/random-seed: %m
Failed to stat() seed file /var/lib/systemd/random-seed: %m
Failed to read seed from /var/lib/systemd/random-seed: %m
Seed file /var/lib/systemd/random-seed not yet initialized, proceeding.
$ strings build/systemd-random-seed | rg '/var/lib/systemd/random-seed'
/var/lib/systemd/random-seed
$ ls -l build/systemd-random-seed{,.0}
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 68872 May 31 13:39 build/systemd-random-seed.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zbyszek zbyszek 64912 May 31 13:45 build/systemd-random-seed
That's a ~6% smaller binary!
System and Service Manager
Details
Most documentation is available on systemd's web site.
Assorted, older, general information about systemd can be found in the systemd Wiki.
Information about build requirements is provided in the README file.
Consult our NEWS file for information about what's new in the most recent systemd versions.
Please see the Code Map for information about this repository's layout and content.
Please see the Hacking guide for information on how to hack on systemd and test your modifications.
Please see our Contribution Guidelines for more information about filing GitHub Issues and posting GitHub Pull Requests.
When preparing patches for systemd, please follow our Coding Style Guidelines.
If you are looking for support, please contact our mailing list, join our IRC channel #systemd on libera.chat or Matrix channel
Stable branches with backported patches are available in the stable repo.
We have a security bug bounty program sponsored by the Sovereign Tech Fund hosted on YesWeHack
Repositories with distribution packages built from git main are available on OBS