systemctl: add "edit --stdin"

This is a fancy wrapper around "cat <<EOF", but:
- the user doesn't need to figure out the file name,
- parent directories are created automatically,
- daemon-reload is implied,
so it's a convenient way to create units or drop-ins.

Closes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/21862.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c
index 367afa20f7..d967b1649e 100644
--- a/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c
+++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl-edit.c
@@ -317,12 +317,13 @@ int verb_edit(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
                 .marker_end = DROPIN_MARKER_END,
                 .remove_parent = !arg_full,
                 .overwrite_with_origin = true,
+                .stdin = arg_stdin,
         };
         _cleanup_strv_free_ char **names = NULL;
         sd_bus *bus;
         int r;
 
-        if (!on_tty())
+        if (!on_tty() && !arg_stdin)
                 return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "Cannot edit units if not on a tty.");
 
         if (arg_transport != BUS_TRANSPORT_LOCAL)
@@ -342,6 +343,10 @@ int verb_edit(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
         if (strv_isempty(names))
                 return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ENOENT), "No units matched the specified patterns.");
 
+        if (arg_stdin && arg_full && strv_length(names) != 1)
+                return log_error_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL),
+                                       "With 'edit --stdin --full', exactly one unit for editing must be specified.");
+
         STRV_FOREACH(tmp, names) {
                 r = unit_is_masked(bus, *tmp);
                 if (r < 0)