Comment # 17 on bug 987668 from Franck Bui

(In reply to James Fehlig from comment #15)
> Is it possible to get NOTIFY_SOCKET fixed in systemd v210? The problem not
> only affects Leap, but SLE12 SP1 and openSUSE13.2.

huh ? to fix what exactly ? why do think systemd is the culprit here ?

sd_notify() works perfectly well with v210, doesn't it ?

Eric already gave you a hint BTW:
"If sendmsg failed, I doubt systemd even noticed anything..."

At least it would be interesting to know why sendmsg() failed and
which return status it did return, that would be the very first step before
blaming systemd...

> 
> BTW, one reason libvirt decided to do their own implementation is to drop
> the dependency on libsystemd{,-daemon}. Why link against the library for
> such a tiny function that is allowed to be reimplemented by services? It
> would make sense if libvirt was using other stuff from the library.

Because:

  - when installing libvirt-daemon on a Suse distro, it's
very likely you'll find the lib already installed.

  - no need to deal with new regressions/bugs (even if the function is "tiny")