Systemd for Developers I

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systemd not only brings improvements for administrators and users, it also brings a (small) number of new APIs with it. In this blog story (which might become the first of a series) I hope to shed some light on one of the most important new APIs in systemd:

Socket Activation

In the original blog story about systemd I tried to explain why socket activation is a wonderful technology to spawn services. Let’s reiterate the background here a bit.

Read more at Lennart Poettering’s blog.