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    Fix memory erasure on shutdown with systemd v239 (refs: #16097). · 634e5a6d
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    Remounting /run with the "exec" option in /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/tails
    does not work anymore with systemd v239, while it worked at least until systemd
    v237. I could not find out why by reading systemd's NEWS file.
    
    So let's instead do this there:
    
     - For clean shutdown: in a new, dedicated service, started immediately before
       final.target, which itself is a synchronization point that ensures this
       service is started before the transition to systemd-shutdown and in turn to
       the initramfs, where we finish the unmounting and other clean ups needed to
       erase the memory.
    
     - For emergency shutdown: in the udev watchdog script, before calling the
       unclean shutdown code, which bypasses final.target and thus won't run
       tails-remount-run-exec.service. Too bad we have to duplicate this mount
       command but it seems that both instances will become unnecessary quickly
       enough, once systemd DTRT™. Another way would be to manually start
       tails-remount-run-exec.service from the udev watchdog script but I'm
       concerned it will be unreliable when the boot medium has been unplugged.
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