[systemd-devel] Allow stop jobs to be killed during shutdown

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Andrey Borzenkov at 27/01/14 12:25 did gyre and gimble:
>> > Hmm, I thought the bit I quoted which said:
>> > 
>>> > > ExecStop=/bin/kill -WINCH ${MAINPID}
>> > 
>> > could be used to tell the user session to start it's shudown procedure,
>> > but rather than -WINCH as in the httpd case, we'd just send SIGTERM here
>> > instead.
>> > 
> Ah, well. So systemd will not allow to say KillMode=none but happily
> accepts dummy signal which does nothing. How consistent :)
> 
> This could be considered as workaround for a released distro where
> user at .service does not do anything useful anyway. Right. Thank you for
> an idea!

Done a bit of testing with this hack today.

Doesn't seem to cause any problems, and while I didn't have a reliable
reproducer, I have done lots of reboots on my VM and I'd expect at least
one of them to have stalled by now.

So I might push this one in too.

Col



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