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authorIan Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>2016-02-21 18:21:50 -0800
committerIan Kelling <ian@iankelling.org>2016-02-23 21:30:39 -0800
commit21b0be6bcfee857a8c88d21c9f876955229be873 (patch)
treed4072078cfb89ee526eeb47fcf78dd8c47d991aa /man
parent1f210bdbe65dffcb6daeb9d9cddbf0b2d02f8718 (diff)
man: clarify unit ordering language
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-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>