Re: on systemd auto-restarting pmcd

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]  But anyway, this problematic interaction with QA could be
> resolved by the addition of common.qa code that provides
> _{disable,enable}_auto_restart() functions for use at the start/end
> of affected tests.  The plain text unit files are easily moved aside
> temporarily [...]

Yes, that would work, good idea.  And it may be even easier than that:
modern systemd lets individual clauses of unit files be overridden by
UNIT.d/FOO.conf files.  In theory, we could have a

/etc/systemd/system/pmcd.d/pcpqa.conf
        Restart=no

file.  It could even be packaged as part of the pcp-testsuite
subpackage.

- FChE