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

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 08/08/2012 05:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.

Should not this be fixed in the daemon instead of worked around in systemd?

JBG