[systemd-devel] systemd-devel Digest, Vol 70, Issue 29

[Avi Kivity]

On 02/17/2016 07:17 PM, systemd-devel-request at lists.freedesktop.org wrote:
>
>>> 3. watchdog during startup
>>>
>>> Sometimes we need to perform expensive operations during startup
>>> (log replay, rebuild from network replica) before we can start
>>> serving. Rather than configure a huge start timeout, I'd prefer
>>> to have the service report progress to systemd so that it knows
>>> that startup is still in progress.
> This requires cooperation from the service process, but is probably
> possible.

We're already sd_notify()ing for startup completion and will be happy to 
send startup watchdog resets as well.