[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd v229

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 11.02.16 19:20, Jan Alexander Steffens (jan.steffens at gmail.com) wrote:

> > when i say "start and stop after 20 minutes" i mean stop it not fail
> >
> > usecase?
> 
> I wanted to say "aborting Type=oneshot services," but that's what
> TimeoutStartSec is for. So I was wondering what the point of this is, too.
> 
> Apparently it's for instantiated services like systemd-coredump at .service.
> Why can't a service for an Accept=yes socket be Type=oneshot and use
> TimeoutStartSec?

Philosophically I'd claim that Type=oneshot is supposed to be for
"short" running processes that something else waits for *to
exit*. The other types are for "long" running processes, that
nothing waits for to exit. Thus I think the coredump service is right
for Type=simple.

But yeah, the lines are blurry, and it would work with Type=oneshot too.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat