[systemd-devel] systemd: support for new timeouts in .service

[Michal Sekletar]

Hi everyone,

we found this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807885 and
we already invested some effort to introducing new timeout types. We
have a patch prepared introducing new service timeout types, namely
TimoutStartSec and TimeoutStopSec. Semantic would be as follows. Old
timeout TimeoutSec defines common timeout for both, start and stop of
service. If new timeout is used it will override current setting, which
is either specified by TimeoutSec or default. However another variant
which was proposed by Michal Schmidt, changes described behavior in a
way that timeout which is specified last in unit file is applied and
always overrides the previous settings.
We are interested in opinion of systemd community in regard to this
matter. Thank you.

Best Regards,

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Michal Sekletar and Lukas Nykryn