session support disallows user jobs with same name as system jobs

Bug #732656 reported by James Hunt
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upstart
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Low
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Bug Description

The session support added to Upstart for Natty disallows user jobs with the same name as system jobs. This seems like an artificial restriction.

What is also missing is a D-Bus method which allows initctl to query the session+chroot details associated with each job. Thus, "initctl list" currently intermingles system jobs and user jobs with no indication as to which jobs are of which type.

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Scott James Remnant (scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 732656] [NEW] session support disallows user jobs with same name as system jobs

Hmm, interesting - I thought the current code allowed them to co-exist
and just "hid" the global one when in a session

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 7:36 AM, James Hunt <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The session support added to Upstart for Natty disallows user jobs with
> the same name as system jobs. This seems like an artificial restriction.
>
> What is also missing is a D-Bus method which allows initctl to query the
> session+chroot details associated with each job. Thus, "initctl list"
> currently intermingles system jobs and user jobs with no indication as
> to which jobs are of which type.
>
> ** Affects: upstart
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732656
>
> Title:
>  session support disallows user jobs with same name as system jobs
>
> Status in Upstart:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  The session support added to Upstart for Natty disallows user jobs
>  with the same name as system jobs. This seems like an artificial
>  restriction.
>
>  What is also missing is a D-Bus method which allows initctl to query
>  the session+chroot details associated with each job. Thus, "initctl
>  list" currently intermingles system jobs and user jobs with no
>  indication as to which jobs are of which type.
>

Changed in upstart:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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