[Samba] Option configure

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 11:27 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am 09.07.2016 um 09:14 schrieb Rowland penny:
> > > What is the purpose of the option
> > > *
> > > **--with-**systemd**
> > > ****Enable****systemd****integration*
> > > 
> > > To configure Samba (build).
> > > 
> > 
> > It is there so that there is also the '--without-systemd' option.
> > 
> > one turns on systemd integration, the other (thank your deity)
> > turns it
> > off.
> > The second is more important, I think you get the systemd
> > integration
> > without explicitly setting '--with-systemd'
> 
> 
> Carlos, it's a good question. I really never recognized this option.
> 
> What is different afterwards when using with/without? Does it create
> a
> systemd service file?

It just means we link to a small library that helps systemd know that
we started up successfully, as I understand it.  

This is needed because of the way we double-fork() at startup, so the
original PID values from the process that called exec() is not the long
-term PID.

Andrew Bartlett
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