[systemd-devel] does service block when systemctl stop another service

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Xin Long <lucien.xin at gmail.com> wrote:
> When system shutdown, service [a] try to kill service [b] with 'systemctl stop',
> but we define the dependence that [b] must die after [a].
>
> Will service [a] block there when system shudown ?

Default execution is synchronous, so yes, it will block.