[systemd-devel] Service watchdog feature in state ACTIVATING ?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 22.04.15 17:59, Hoyer, Marko (ADITG/SW2) (mhoyer at de.adit-jv.com) wrote:

> > So, I can see that having watchdog support during the activating phase
> > might make sense in this case, but I am not sure this case is strong
> > enough to add it to systemd proper, since it would complicate things
> > for most: it's not a behaviour we can just enable for everybody, it
> > would have to be something we'd have to add an explicit opt-in option
> > for, since most daemons don't work like this.
> 
> Thx for getting back to this again.
> 
> An a bit more light weight variant could be adding a second watchdog
> timeout parameter meant for the activation phase only. This timeout
> value could be 0 (infinite) by default. This way, the feature is
> probably invisible for all who are not explicitly setting it.

Well, if it's a boolean or a timeout that is configured, I'd prefer
not to add either option unless this turns out to be a frequently
requested feature...

I am just careful with adding even more settings so easily...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat