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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On 08/08/2012 11:14 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> 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?
In principle yes, but some of the daemons that are broken are pretty
heavy-weight: sshd [1], java [2].

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-March/001656.html
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-December/004069.html

I'm all for fixing things upstream, but sometimes it's hard.

Zbyszek