Re: [HTCondor-devel] [htcondor-fw] cgroups and systemd (205&>).

[Brian Bockelman <bbockelm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2/17/2014 1:44 PM, Tim St Clair wrote:
>> Greetings folks,
>> 
>> Just thought I would give a heads up that libcgroup-devel is deprecated in favor of the new systemd world order.  Thus all the code that leverages cgroups will likely need to be updated to use the new API.
>> 
>> Details can be found here:
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/
>> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the heads up, Tim!
> 

Yup, I've been following this - probably the "right time to jump in" will be in a year or so.

The API seems to be stabilizing and the distro picture is starting to emerge (Ubuntu announced their switch from upstart to systemd last week).  I will probably be dragging my feet a bit as this would cause a direct dependency between the procd and D-BUS / systemd.  We'll want to make sure that HTCondor can gracefully degrade to non-systemd Linux platforms (think RHEL{5,6} or Debian).

Brian