[systemd-devel] Scope units get SIGKILL when stopped, not SIGTERM

[Michael Chapman]

Hello,

When I stop a scope unit, it looks like all processes in it get a SIGKILL 
immediately, not a SIGTERM.

I believe this issue has been brought up before in 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024452.html, 
but there was no resolution then. That thread indicates that commit 
743970d2 was where the regression was introduced.

I noticed this problem specifically when using "reboot" from a shell (it 
happened to be over SSH, but I don't think that's significant). After 
reboot, the user's shell history did *not* contain any of the commands 
from that shell session, since it had been SIGKILLed.

Is there any solution for this problem on the horizon? Losing shell 
history is relatively minor in the grand scheme of things, but I could 
well imagine some other uses for scope units that expect an orderly 
shutdown.

- Michael