core: never remove "transient" and "control" directories from unit search path

This changes the unit search path logic to never drop the transient and
control directories from the unit search path. This is necessary as we
add new entries to both during runtime, due to the "systemctl
set-property" and transient unit logic.

Previously, the "transient" directory was created during early boot to
deal with this, but the "control" directories were not covered like
that. Creating the control directories early at boot is not possible
however, as /etc might be read-only then, and we do define a persistent
control directory. Hence, let's create these dirs on-demand when we need
them, and make sure the search path clean-up logic never drops them from
the search path even if they are initially missing.

(Also, always create these paths properly labelled)

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/path-lookup.c b/src/shared/path-lookup.c
index b40887bfbd..57e0757529 100644
--- a/src/shared/path-lookup.c
+++ b/src/shared/path-lookup.c
@@ -736,6 +736,14 @@ int lookup_paths_reduce(LookupPaths *p) {
                 struct stat st;
                 unsigned k;
 
+                /* Never strip the transient and control directories from the path */
+                if (path_equal_ptr(p->search_path[c], p->transient) ||
+                    path_equal_ptr(p->search_path[c], p->persistent_control) ||
+                    path_equal_ptr(p->search_path[c], p->runtime_control)) {
+                        c++;
+                        continue;
+                }
+
                 if (p->root_dir)
                         r = lstat(p->search_path[c], &st);
                 else