| Daniel Colascione | 3e12469 | 2019-11-13 17:49:37 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | adb can be configured to work with systemd-style socket activation, |
| 2 | allowing the daemon to start automatically when the adb control port |
| 3 | is forwarded across a network. You need two files, placed in the usual |
| 4 | systemd service directories (e.g., ~/.config/systemd/user for a user |
| 5 | service). |
| 6 | |
| 7 | adb.service: |
| 8 | |
| 9 | --- START adb.service CUT HERE --- |
| 10 | [Unit] |
| 11 | Description=adb |
| 12 | After=adb.socket |
| 13 | Requires=adb.socket |
| 14 | [Service] |
| 15 | Type=simple |
| 16 | # FD 3 is part of the systemd interface |
| 17 | ExecStart=/path/to/adb server nodaemon -L acceptfd:3 |
| 18 | --- END adb.service CUT HERE --- |
| 19 | |
| 20 | --- START adb.socket CUT HERE --- |
| 21 | [Unit] |
| 22 | Description=adb |
| 23 | PartOf=adb.service |
| 24 | [Socket] |
| 25 | ListenStream=127.0.0.1:5037 |
| 26 | Accept=no |
| 27 | [Install] |
| 28 | WantedBy=sockets.target |
| 29 | --- END adb.socket CUT HERE --- |
| 30 | |
| 31 | After installing the adb service, the adb server will be started |
| 32 | automatically on any connection to 127.0.0.1:5037 (the default adb |
| 33 | control port), even after adb kill-server kills the server. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | Other "superserver" launcher systems (like macOS launchd) can be |
| 36 | configured analogously. The important part is that adb be started with |
| 37 | "server" and "nodaemon" command line arguments and that the listen |
| 38 | address (passed to -L) name a file descriptor that's ready to |
| 39 | accept(2) connections and that's already bound to the desired address |
| 40 | and listening. inetd-style pre-accepted sockets do _not_ work in this |
| 41 | configuration: the file descriptor passed to acceptfd must be the |
| 42 | serve socket, not the accepted connection socket. |