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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-03-09 18:01:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-03-09 18:02:23 +0100 |
| commit | b481de3b22fcd838a8f059aed8745375afdb9eca (patch) | |
| tree | 76d7a6d8ee90863fe312bc46ad66bbd046128d38 /man/systemd.service.xml | |
| parent | 2c971c6fef4fdba5ea2cba5891a4a8f4736b87e4 (diff) | |
man: document that ExecStartPre= is not the place to start long-running processes
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.service.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml index c03b4e8a54..f598705633 100644 --- a/man/systemd.service.xml +++ b/man/systemd.service.xml @@ -334,6 +334,11 @@ <para>If any of those commands (not prefixed with <literal>-</literal>) fail, the rest are not executed and the unit is considered failed.</para> + + <para>Note that <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> may not be + used to start long-running processes. All processes forked + off by processes invoked via <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> will + be killed before the next service process is run.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |