We would resolve those specifiers to the calling user/group. This is mostly OK
when done in the manager, because the manager generally operates as root
in system mode, and a non-root in user mode. It would still be wrong if
called with --test though. But in systemctl, this would be generally wrong,
since we can call 'systemctl --system' as a normal user, either for testing
or even for actual operation with '--root=…'.
When operating in --global mode, %u/%U/%g/%G should return an error.
The information whether we're operating in system mode, user mode, or global
mode is passed as the data pointer to specifier_group_name(), specifier_user_name(),
specifier_group_id(), specifier_user_id(). We can't use userdata, because
it's already used for other things.
ENOENT is easily confused with the file that we're working on not being
present, e.g. when the file contains %o or something else that requires
os-release to be present. Let's use -EUNATCH instead to reduce that chances of
confusion if the context of the error is lost.
And once we have pinpointed the reason, let's provide a proper error message:
+ build/systemctl --root=/tmp/systemctl-test.TO7Mcb enable some-some-link6@.socket
/tmp/systemctl-test.TO7Mcb/etc/systemd/system/some-some-link6@.socket: Failed to resolve alias "target@A:%A.socket": Protocol driver not attached
Failed to enable unit, cannot resolve specifiers in "target@A:%A.socket".
The test for the variable is added in test-systemctl-enable because there we
can do it almost for free, and the variable is most likely to be used with
'systemctl enable --root' anyway.
This test has overlap with test-install-root, but it tests things at a
different level, so I think it's useful to add. It immediately shows various
bugs which will be fixed in later patches.