> Thoughts?
my gut reaction is that whatever the automatic mapping does should be
captured/reified into the code that defines a service... factoring out the
common parts, and adding on top of that whatever is necessary in the two
different contexts.
but then i'm not sure i fully understand the differences between these two
contexts, and i don't have a proposal.diff either, so...
BTW, what are the differences?
- a possible call to setuid/setgid, and their values in the config if
the service is not to be started as root?
- the default values of the config file and log file(s)? possibly
some service-specific values in the config whose default value
depend on the user/group under which the service is running?
maybe the user/group should be a mandatory value under the hood, and the
service code should dispatch on their values and the current effective
user/group id, and act accordingly?
what am i missing?
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