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From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:01:47 +0100
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Subject: [PATCH] man: document that ExecStartPre= is not the place to start
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 long-running processes
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(cherry picked from commit b481de3b22fcd838a8f059aed8745375afdb9eca)
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---
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 man/systemd.service.xml | 5 +++++
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 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
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index c03b4e8a5..f59870563 100644
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--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
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+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
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@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@
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         <para>If any of those commands (not prefixed with
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         <literal>-</literal>) fail, the rest are not executed and the
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         unit is considered failed.</para>
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+
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+        <para>Note that <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> may not be
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+        used to start long-running processes. All processes forked
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+        off by processes invoked via <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> will
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+        be killed before the next service process is run.</para>
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         </listitem>
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       </varlistentry>
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