From 5180cbe32605e4ae5d1b8870a845d6bde73af168 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:01:47 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] man: document that ExecStartPre= is not the place to start

 long-running processes

(cherry picked from commit b481de3b22fcd838a8f059aed8745375afdb9eca)

---

 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 @@

         <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>