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NEWS: note about reexec on update, for sd-executor
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@@ -68,7 +68,11 @@ CHANGES WITH 255 in spe:
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semantics via posix_spawn(3), and it immediately execs a new internal
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binary, systemd-executor, that receives the configuration to apply
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via memfd, and sets up the process before exec'ing the target
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executable.
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executable. The systemd-executor binary is pinned by file descriptor
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by each manager instance (system and users), and the reference is
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updated on daemon-reexec - it is thus important to reexec all running
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manager instances when the systemd-executor and/or libsystemd*
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libraries are updated on the filesystem.
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* Most of the internal process tracking is being changed to use PIDFDs
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instead of PIDs when the kernel supports it, to improve robustness

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