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jochen a018ebd1ca Pass -- before every unit, and give a unit back only when it is exactly as the mesh held it
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery superseded: a newer head of the same pull request
Third review of mesh-catalog #147.

A unit's name can now come from a setting (a template's instance), so every systemctl call that names a
unit passes `--` before it, and a name can never be read as an option.

On removal, a unit is started or enabled again only when it is exactly the stopped and disabled the mesh
held it to. A masked unit, or one somebody started or enabled since, is left as it is, and the report
says why. A restore that fails (the start refused, or the unit not running after it) puts back what this
attempt changed and is reported as waiting, so no apply is made fatal by it and the next one tries again.

The tests' fake service managers read systemctl's arguments in the shape they were written for
(oldShape); internal/system's own test holds the `--`.
2026-10-09 01:54:26 +02:00
jochen d5c365cb2b A user unit waits for its account's manager, and lingering is the account's (hq ADR 0177)
An account's manager runs only while it is logged in or lingers. A user-scoped unit
whose manager is not running is now "waiting" rather than failed, its record kept as
it was; its removal is never fatal (kept recorded, retried) and an account that is
gone is forgotten. Whether the manager runs is asked of user@<uid>.service in the
machine's manager: asking the account's own, through --machine, logs it in.

The user shape gains `linger`, set with loginctl, read back from logind's record,
and given back on removal like the shell. Unit files the mesh writes under
~/.config/systemd/user or /etc/systemd/user make that unit the mesh's, and made,
holds and found units are keyed by manager and name, so an account's unit and the
machine's of one name are two units. A service moved between managers gives the old
one back through the manager it was in. OpenRC refuses both.
2026-10-04 12:41:32 +02:00
jochen 23a4436499 review: a unit whose file the mesh wrote is stopped when undeclared, and what was found survives a failed first apply (hq ADR 0118)
Records written before Found existed left the adoption guard and the converge filter loaded on
undeclare, then deleted their unit files from under them; a unit whose own file the mesh created
is now the mesh's, whatever its record says. Found is kept apart the moment it is read, so a
first apply that enabled and then failed is not read back as the machine's; boot is found the
first time the mesh sets it; a service once stateless, or moved to another unit, is found afresh
(the old unit given back). The unit is read after the reload that loads a file written in the
same apply, and removal reports what it actually did.
2026-09-27 00:41:02 +02:00