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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-02-24 00:39:06 -0500
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-02-24 00:39:06 -0500
commitf6b052559c202c648d1ec528439d532380422223 (patch)
treeaddb0138ef1fefa602fd60bfc04d2e90eb8bbf0d
parent03e6b71c062769a7ed6c272d1fef1ff277104901 (diff)
parent21b0be6bcfee857a8c88d21c9f876955229be873 (diff)
Merge pull request #2727 from ian-kelling/man-pr-v3
man: clarify unit ordering language
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.unit.xml19
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 5794681963..f5022b03cc 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -558,14 +558,17 @@
between them are shut down, the inverse of the start-up order
is applied. i.e. if a unit is configured with
<varname>After=</varname> on another unit, the former is
- stopped before the latter if both are shut down. If one unit
- with an ordering dependency on another unit is shut down while
- the latter is started up, the shut down is ordered before the
- start-up regardless of whether the ordering dependency is
- actually of type <varname>After=</varname> or
- <varname>Before=</varname>. If two units have no ordering
- dependencies between them, they are shut down or started up
- simultaneously, and no ordering takes place.
+ stopped before the latter if both are shut down. Given two units
+ with any ordering dependency between them, if one unit is shut
+ down and the other is started up, the shutdown is ordered
+ before the start-up. It doesn't matter if the ordering
+ dependency is <varname>After=</varname> or
+ <varname>Before=</varname>. It also doesn't matter which of the
+ two is shut down, as long as one is shut down and the other is
+ started up. The shutdown is ordered before the start-up in all
+ cases. If two units have no ordering dependencies between them,
+ they are shut down or started up simultaneously, and no ordering
+ takes place.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>