[systemd-devel] Fwd: Stopping a service at a specific time or after a specific duration

[Reindl Harald]

Am 22.04.2016 um 17:07 schrieb Reindl Harald:
> Am 22.04.2016 um 17:03 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
>> On Thu, 21.04.16 10:32, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:
>>
>>>> Thanks. The man page says:
>>>>
>>>>> If this is used and the service has been active for longer than the
>>>>> specified
>>>>> time it is terminated and put into a failure state
>>>
>>> and i call that a design bug - why does it go into failure state?
>>
>> No need to warm up this discussion. And I think I said already that
>> I'd be happy to merge a patch that allows making the MaxRuntimeSec=
>> effect configurable, and optionally clean
>
> sorry for not beeing able to fix and change C/C++ code and only can
> state when things are not finally designed from start.....

and thinking again about "RuntimeMaxSec=" i don't get it's usecase

* Type=oneshot hat the "state failed" behavior already
   with "TimeoutStartSec=" if it takes longer

* Type=simple/forking is not supposed to stop the main process
   itself, otherwise it goes in failure state


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