From 210c9e5dd1e3d0e37a16225a63840d71b473684c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>

Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:05:11 +0200

Subject: [PATCH] man: document that SIGCONT always follows SIGTERM

As requested in #199.

(cherry picked from commit e8c53936316288ea3b33b5997b175862f0efef92)

Resolves: #1601794

---

 man/systemd.kill.xml | 8 +++++++-

 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd.kill.xml b/man/systemd.kill.xml

index e57f0e724..1292f4f51 100644

--- a/man/systemd.kill.xml

+++ b/man/systemd.kill.xml

@@ -136,7 +136,13 @@

         by <constant>SIGKILL</constant> (see above and below). For a

         list of valid signals, see

         <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>signal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.

-        Defaults to <constant>SIGTERM</constant>. </para></listitem>

+        Defaults to <constant>SIGTERM</constant>. </para>

+

+        <para>Note that right after sending the signal specified in

+        this setting systemd will always send

+        <constant>SIGCONT</constant>, to ensure that even suspended

+        tasks can be terminated cleanly.</para>

+        </listitem>

       </varlistentry>

       <varlistentry>