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mesh-catalog/modules/systemd/cmd/systemd-tools/wanted.go
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Refuse a glob as a unit, and make wanted-by say only what it saw
systemctl expands *, ? and [ in a unit argument, so reset-failed or stop
of "*" would have acted on every unit. wanted-by called a link dangling on
any stat error, followed a linked .wants anywhere, and missed most of the
manager's load path; it now says each of these, and says nothing names a
unit only of the directories it searched.
2026-10-08 17:38:48 +02:00

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package main
// What wants, requires or triggers one unit (novox/hq issue 332), read-only. Two sources, because each misses
// what the other sees:
//
// - **the manager**, asked for the unit's reverse dependencies (systemctl show's WantedBy, RequiredBy and
// the rest, and list-dependencies --reverse for what pulls it in through another unit). It knows what is
// loaded now, including a dependency a unit file states in its own [Unit] section;
// - **the configuration directories**, read for an enable link naming the unit in a *.wants, *.requires or
// *.upholds directory. A link outlives the unit file it pointed at: once the package that shipped the unit
// is gone, the link dangles, and the manager asks for a unit it cannot find at every boot or login. That
// is the case a failed record of a unit whose load state is not-found comes from, and the answer says
// each link's target and whether it dangles.
//
// Nothing here changes anything. Clearing the record is `reset-failed`'s.
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"io/fs"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sort"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
// reverseProperties are the unit's properties that name a unit depending on it.
var reverseProperties = []string{"WantedBy", "RequiredBy", "RequisiteOf", "BoundBy", "UpheldBy", "ConsistsOf", "TriggeredBy", "PartOf"}
// stateProperties say what the manager knows of the unit itself, so a not-found unit is recognised.
var stateProperties = []string{"LoadState", "ActiveState", "SubState", "UnitFileState", "FragmentPath"}
// dependencyDirs are the suffixes of the directories an enable link sits in, and the dependency each makes.
var dependencyDirs = map[string]string{".wants": "Wants", ".requires": "Requires", ".upholds": "Upholds"}
// Entry is one name in a directory as lstat sees it: a link is never followed to say what it is.
type Entry struct {
Name string
// Dir is whether the name is itself a directory; a link to one is not.
Dir bool
// Link is where a symbolic link points, as written; empty when the name is not a link.
Link string
// Dangles is whether a link points at nothing: what it names does not exist.
Dangles bool
// Error is why a link's target could not be looked at, when that is anything but its not existing.
Error string
}
// ConfigDir is one directory a manager reads units and enable links from, and whose it is.
type ConfigDir struct {
Path string `json:"path"`
Whose string `json:"whose"`
// Removable is whether a dangling link here is a person's or an administrator's to remove: their own
// configuration, not a package's, a generator's or the runtime's, which put theirs back.
Removable bool `json:"-"`
}
// EnableLink is one link in a dependency directory that names the unit.
type EnableLink struct {
Path string `json:"path"`
// Of is the unit that wants (or requires, or upholds) this one: the directory's name less its suffix.
Of string `json:"of"`
Dependency string `json:"dependency"`
Target string `json:"target,omitempty"`
Dangles bool `json:"dangles"`
// Error is why the target could not be looked at, other than its not existing: neither dangling nor not.
Error string `json:"error,omitempty"`
// Link is false for a plain file in a dependency directory, which the manager reads the same way.
Link bool `json:"link"`
Whose string `json:"whose"`
removable bool
}
// configDirs are the directories a scope's manager reads unit files and enable links from, in its own order
// of precedence (systemd.unit(5), "Unit File Load Path"). The account's own are left out, and said, when its
// home is not known.
func (m *Manager) configDirs(scope Scope) []ConfigDir {
if scope == User {
account := "the operator account's own configuration"
dirs := []ConfigDir{}
if m.Home != "" {
dirs = append(dirs, ConfigDir{filepath.Join(m.Home, ".config", "systemd", "user.control"), account + " (set by a program through the manager)", true})
}
dirs = append(dirs, ConfigDir{fmt.Sprintf("/run/user/%d/systemd/user", m.UID), "made at runtime, gone at the next login", false})
if m.Home != "" {
dirs = append(dirs, ConfigDir{filepath.Join(m.Home, ".config", "systemd", "user"), account, true})
}
dirs = append(dirs,
ConfigDir{"/etc/systemd/user", "the machine's configuration, for every account", true},
ConfigDir{"/etc/xdg/systemd/user", "the machine's configuration, for every account", true})
if m.Home != "" {
dirs = append(dirs, ConfigDir{filepath.Join(m.Home, ".local", "share", "systemd", "user"), "a program installed in the account's own home", false})
}
return append(dirs,
ConfigDir{"/usr/local/lib/systemd/user", "a program installed by hand, for every account", false},
ConfigDir{"/usr/lib/systemd/user", "a package's", false})
}
return []ConfigDir{
{"/etc/systemd/system.control", "the machine's configuration (set by a program through the manager)", true},
{"/run/systemd/transient", "made at runtime, gone at the next boot", false},
{"/run/systemd/generator.early", "a generator's, made again at every boot and reload", false},
{"/etc/systemd/system", "the machine's configuration", true},
{"/run/systemd/system", "made at runtime, gone at the next boot", false},
{"/run/systemd/generator", "a generator's, made again at every boot and reload", false},
{"/usr/local/lib/systemd/system", "a program installed by hand", false},
{"/usr/lib/systemd/system", "a package's", false},
{"/run/systemd/generator.late", "a generator's, made again at every boot and reload", false},
}
}
// within is whether a path lies in one of the directories.
func within(path string, dirs []ConfigDir) bool {
path = filepath.Clean(path)
for _, d := range dirs {
if path == d.Path || strings.HasPrefix(path, d.Path+string(filepath.Separator)) {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// links finds every enable link naming the unit under the scope's configuration directories: by its own
// name, or by the name of the file it points at. A directory that cannot be read is said, never skipped as
// empty; one that does not exist is the ordinary case and is not. **A dependency directory that is itself a
// link is followed only when it leads into the searched directories**: elsewhere it is said, and not read,
// so a link cannot point the search, or a removal after it, at any directory on the machine.
func (m *Manager) links(scope Scope, unit string) ([]EnableLink, []string) {
found, unread := []EnableLink{}, []string{}
dirs := m.configDirs(scope)
for _, dir := range dirs {
entries, err := m.ReadDir(dir.Path)
if err != nil {
if !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
unread = append(unread, dir.Path+": "+err.Error())
}
continue
}
for _, e := range entries {
dependency, of := "", ""
for suffix, dep := range dependencyDirs {
if strings.HasSuffix(e.Name, suffix) {
dependency, of = dep, strings.TrimSuffix(e.Name, suffix)
}
}
if dependency == "" || (!e.Dir && e.Link == "") {
continue
}
sub := filepath.Join(dir.Path, e.Name)
read := sub
if e.Link != "" {
target := e.Link
if !filepath.IsAbs(target) {
target = filepath.Join(dir.Path, target)
}
if !within(target, dirs) {
unread = append(unread, sub+": a link to "+e.Link+", outside the directories searched, not followed")
continue
}
read = filepath.Clean(target)
}
inside, err := m.ReadDir(read)
if err != nil {
if !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
unread = append(unread, sub+": "+err.Error())
}
continue
}
for _, l := range inside {
if l.Name != unit && (l.Link == "" || filepath.Base(l.Link) != unit) {
continue
}
found = append(found, EnableLink{Path: filepath.Join(sub, l.Name), Of: of, Dependency: dependency,
Target: l.Link, Dangles: l.Link != "" && l.Dangles, Error: l.Error, Link: l.Link != "",
Whose: dir.Whose, removable: dir.Removable && e.Link == ""})
}
}
}
sort.Slice(found, func(i, j int) bool { return found[i].Path < found[j].Path })
return found, unread
}
// WantedBy is what wants, requires or triggers one unit: the manager's reverse dependencies and the enable
// links naming it, with a finding in words. A manager that does not answer is said beside the links, which
// are read from disk and do not need it.
func (m *Manager) WantedBy(scope Scope, unit string) (map[string]any, error) {
if err := unitArg(unit); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
answer := map[string]any{"unit": unit, "scope": string(scope)}
manager := map[string]any{}
args := []string{"show", "--no-pager"}
for _, p := range append(append([]string{}, stateProperties...), reverseProperties...) {
args = append(args, "--property="+p)
}
loadState := ""
dependents := 0
if out, err := m.call(scope, "systemctl", append(args, "--", unit)...); err != nil {
manager["error"] = err.Error()
} else {
for _, line := range strings.Split(out, "\n") {
k, v, ok := strings.Cut(line, "=")
if !ok || k == "" {
continue
}
if isReverse(k) {
if names := strings.Fields(v); len(names) > 0 {
manager[k] = names
dependents += len(names)
}
continue
}
manager[k] = v
}
loadState, _ = manager["LoadState"].(string)
}
// Through other units: list-dependencies --reverse follows the same edges from the units that pull in
// those that pull this one in. Its first line is the unit itself.
if out, err := m.call(scope, "systemctl", "list-dependencies", "--reverse", "--plain", "--no-legend", "--no-pager", "--", unit); err != nil {
manager["reverse_error"] = err.Error()
} else {
chain := []string{}
for i, line := range strings.Split(out, "\n") {
name := strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimLeft(line, " │├└─●○×*"))
if i == 0 || name == "" || name == unit {
continue
}
chain = append(chain, name)
}
if len(chain) > 0 {
manager["reverse"] = chain
}
}
answer["manager"] = manager
links, unread := m.links(scope, unit)
answer["links"] = links
answer["searched"] = m.configDirs(scope)
if len(unread) > 0 {
answer["unread"] = unread
}
answer["findings"] = findings(scope, unit, loadState, dependents, links, unread, manager["error"] != nil, m.Home == "")
return answer, nil
}
func isReverse(property string) bool {
for _, p := range reverseProperties {
if p == property {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// findings say what the answer means, so a caller does not have to put the parts together.
func findings(scope Scope, unit, loadState string, dependents int, links []EnableLink, unread []string, managerFailed, noHome bool) []string {
out := []string{}
dangling, removable, unknown := 0, 0, 0
for _, l := range links {
switch {
case l.Dangles:
dangling++
if l.removable {
removable++
}
out = append(out, l.Path+" makes "+l.Of+" "+strings.TrimSuffix(strings.ToLower(l.Dependency), "s")+" "+unit+" and points at "+l.Target+", which does not exist ("+l.Whose+")")
case l.Error != "":
unknown++
out = append(out, l.Path+" points at "+l.Target+", which could not be looked at: "+l.Error)
}
}
if loadState == "not-found" && len(links) > 0 && dangling == 0 && unknown == 0 {
out = append(out, "the unit's file is not found, and "+plural(len(links), "enable link")+" still name it")
}
if removable > 0 {
out = append(out, "`disable` does not remove a link whose unit file is gone, and no verb of this seat removes one yet "+
"(novox/hq issue 332); once it is gone, `reset-failed` clears the unit's failed record")
} else if dangling > 0 {
out = append(out, "the dangling links are in a package's, a generator's or the runtime's directory, which puts them back: they are not the person's to remove")
}
incomplete := managerFailed || len(unread) > 0 || unknown > 0 || (scope == User && noHome)
if len(links) == 0 && dependents == 0 {
where := "in the directories searched"
if incomplete {
where += ", which are not all of them (below)"
}
if loadState == "not-found" {
out = append(out, "nothing names "+unit+" "+where+": a failed record of it is stale, and `reset-failed` clears it")
} else if !managerFailed {
out = append(out, "no unit and no enable link pulls "+unit+" in "+where+": it starts only when asked by name, by a timer, socket or path unit the manager does not list, or by a program")
}
}
if managerFailed {
out = append(out, "the manager did not answer, so only the links on disk are known")
}
if scope == User && noHome {
out = append(out, "the account's home is not known to this process, so its own directories were not searched")
}
if len(unread) > 0 {
out = append(out, "some directories could not be read, so a link may be missing from this answer")
}
return out
}
func plural(n int, what string) string {
if n == 1 {
return "1 " + what
}
return strconv.Itoa(n) + " " + what + "s"
}
// readDir lists a directory as enable links need it, by lstat: each name, whether it is itself a directory,
// where a link points, and whether what it points at does not exist — any other failure to look is said as
// the error it was, never as dangling.
func readDir(dir string) ([]Entry, error) {
entries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
out := make([]Entry, 0, len(entries))
for _, e := range entries {
out = append(out, entryOf(filepath.Join(dir, e.Name()), e.Name(), e.Type()))
}
return out, nil
}
func entryOf(full, name string, mode fs.FileMode) Entry {
entry := Entry{Name: name, Dir: mode.IsDir()}
if mode&fs.ModeSymlink == 0 {
return entry
}
target, err := os.Readlink(full)
if err != nil {
target, entry.Error = "(unreadable)", err.Error()
}
entry.Link = target
if _, err := os.Stat(full); errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
entry.Dangles = true
} else if err != nil {
entry.Error = err.Error()
}
return entry
}