notify: add minimal readiness/status protocol for spawned daemons

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/initctl.c b/src/initctl.c
index 34c38839df..56ed5cdf30 100644
--- a/src/initctl.c
+++ b/src/initctl.c
@@ -354,6 +354,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         if (server_init(&server, (unsigned) n) < 0)
                 return 2;
 
+        sd_notify(false,
+                  "READY=1\n"
+                  "STATUS=Processing requests...");
+
         for (;;) {
                 struct epoll_event event;
                 int k;
@@ -378,6 +382,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         r = 0;
 
 fail:
+        sd_notify(false,
+                  "STATUS=Shutting down...");
+
         server_done(&server);
 
         log_info("systemd-initctl stopped as pid %llu", (unsigned long long) getpid());