[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v229

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 11.02.16 19:03, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 11.02.2016 um 17:50 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> >         * A new service setting RuntimeMaxSec= has been added that may be used
> >           to specify a maximum runtime for a service. If the timeout is hit, the
> >           service is terminated and put into a failure state
> 
> failure state makes no sense at all here

well, maybe you have a different usecase, but it certainly makes sense
in others.

Either way, I am happy to take a patch that makes this
configurable. One option could be to extend SuccessExitStatus= and
RestartPreventExitStatus= so that they take a special value "timeout",
or so, which disables the failure state or restart for the timeout case.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat