[systemd-devel] Fwd: [Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#732157: Want SIGSTOP-style daemon/service readiness notification

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 16.12.13 00:04, David Timothy Strauss (david at davidstrauss.net) wrote:

> If we supported PIDFile= for Type=simple, daemons could drop a PID
> file to indicate startup completion without having to be full-on
> Type=forking.

There has been a TODO list item for a long time to introduce
Type=pid-file which would work like this.

I am a bit concerned though that people would just blindly make use of
it without actually verifying that their specific daemon really creates
the PID file as last part of initialization. But maybe that concern can
be dealt with with an explicit warning in the man page.

Anyway, I'd be open for such a patch,

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat