[systemd-devel] Question about ExecStartPost= and startup process

[Reindl Harald]

Am 28.06.2015 um 19:02 schrieb Francis Moreau:
> On 06/28/2015 01:01 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 28.06.2015 um 12:00 schrieb Francis Moreau:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> For services with Type=Forking, I'm wondering if systemd  proceeds
>>> starting follow-up units when the command described by ExecStart= exits
>>> or when the one described by ExecStartPost= exits ?
>>>
>>> I tried to read the source code to figure this out and it *seems* that
>>> the latter is true but I'm really not sure.
>>
>> after ExecStartPost because anything else would make no sense, a unit is
>> started when *all* if is st started - see the recent mariadb units on
>> Fedora - if systemd would fire up deaemons which depend on mariadb the
>> whole "wait-ready"-stuff won't work
>
> Ok, then the next naive question would be: "then what the purpose of the
> ExecStartPost= directive since several commands can already be 'queued'
> with the ExecStart= one?

no, they can't, not for every service type
"When Type is not oneshot, only one command may and must be given"

read http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html

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