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authorDave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>2014-02-14 01:40:04 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-02-14 01:40:52 +0100
commit29e254f7f093c07a1ec7e845e60203357f585235 (patch)
tree04cdd042b2a32759a00198c7ae594f2848c6c354
parent112cfb181453e38d3ef4a74fba23abbb53392002 (diff)
man: systemd.service(5): clarify behavior of SuccessExitStatus
The behavior of this is a little cryptic in that $MAINPID must exit as a direct result of receiving a signal in order for a listed signal to be considered a success condition.
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.service.xml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index d316ab5d2e..72b872bece 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -748,7 +748,10 @@ ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}
<constant>SIGTERM</constant>, and <constant>SIGPIPE</constant>. Exit status
definitions can either be numeric exit
codes or termination signal names,
- separated by spaces. For example:
+ separated by spaces. Signals will only
+ be considered if the service does not implement
+ a signal handler and exits as a direct result
+ of receiving the signal. For example:
<programlisting>SuccessExitStatus=1 2 8 <constant>SIGKILL</constant></programlisting>
ensures that exit codes 1, 2, 8 and
the termination signal