Systemd.exec supports configuring the runtime directory of a service via RuntimeDirectory=. This creates the directory with the necessary permissions which actual service may not have if running in container.
The change to DPDK is to look for the environment RUNTIME_DIRECTORY first and use that in preference to the fallback alternatives. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> --- lib/eal/linux/eal.c | 23 ++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal.c index 60b49248388e..e729c713b393 100644 --- a/lib/eal/linux/eal.c +++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal.c @@ -86,25 +86,26 @@ struct lcore_config lcore_config[RTE_MAX_LCORE]; /* used by rte_rdtsc() */ int rte_cycles_vmware_tsc_map; -static const char *default_runtime_dir = "/var/run"; - int eal_create_runtime_dir(void) { - const char *directory = default_runtime_dir; - const char *xdg_runtime_dir = getenv("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"); - const char *fallback = "/tmp"; + const char *directory; char run_dir[PATH_MAX]; char tmp[PATH_MAX]; int ret; - if (getuid() != 0) { - /* try XDG path first, fall back to /tmp */ - if (xdg_runtime_dir != NULL) - directory = xdg_runtime_dir; - else - directory = fallback; + /* from RuntimeDirectory= see systemd.exec */ + directory = getenv("RUNTIME_DIRECTORY"); + if (directory == NULL) { + if (getuid() == 0) + directory = "/var/run"; + else { + directory = getenv("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"); + if (directory == NULL) + directory = "/tmp"; + } } + /* create DPDK subdirectory under runtime dir */ ret = snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "%s/dpdk", directory); if (ret < 0 || ret == sizeof(tmp)) { -- 2.30.2