From b481de3b22fcd838a8f059aed8745375afdb9eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:01:47 +0100 Subject: man: document that ExecStartPre= is not the place to start long-running processes --- man/systemd.service.xml | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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 @@ If any of those commands (not prefixed with -) fail, the rest are not executed and the unit is considered failed. + + Note that ExecStartPre= may not be + used to start long-running processes. All processes forked + off by processes invoked via ExecStartPre= will + be killed before the next service process is run. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf