[systemd-devel] [PATCH] service: allow service to inhibit respawn with special return code

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 07.08.12 16:01, David Strauss (david at davidstrauss.net) wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > (But please, don't implement this bit just yet, let's wait for somebody
> > actually needing this. Note though, that Upstart actually does have
> > functionality like this).
> 
> There are broken daemons like the "cluster" support in node.js that
> return non-zero on clean shutdowns. While this is broken behavior, it
> seems the systemd standard is to support broken/non-standard behavior
> with optional settings. (That is, the default in systemd is a
> well-behaved application.)

Hmm, I was kinda waiting for use cases like this. i.e. before we add an
option to reconfigure what clean exits are I wanted an explicit request
for it, so that we don't end up adding something that is actually
unncessary.

Added this to the TODO list now.

Lennart

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