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

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 06.08.12 01:14, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
>
>>
>> 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 03/08/12 19:46 did gyre and gimble:
>> > Maybe DontRestartExitStatus=? The libc calls the generalization of
>> > exit code and exit signal the "exit status", so that sounds like the
>> > best term to use here.
>>
>> Would InhibitRestartExitStatus= work for you? Something feels wrong with
>> Dont* (partly because "don't" is a contraction of "do not" and
>> DoNotRestartExitStatus just feels wrong too).
>>
>> Not sure if "Inhibit*" is maybe used somewhere already that would make
>> this less desirable tho'.
>
> Hmm, using the word "inhibit" in this context might be confusing, since
> we already have this suspend/shutdown inibition framework and tools like
> "systemd-inhibit", which are unrelated to this.
>
> But what about "Prevent"?
>
> PreventRestartExitStatus= makes a lot of sense to me, but then again, I
> am not a native speaker... Does that sound good to you, too?

Starting key names with verbs or attributes is a mess. If it's really
bound to Restart, it should probably be RestartIgnoreExitStatus or
something like that instead.

Kay