[systemd-devel] Formatting Execstart= for readability

[Reindl Harald]

Am 16.08.2017 um 12:04 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net 
> <mailto:h.reindl at thelounge.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Am 16.08.2017 um 10:31 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas:
> 
>         Just put everything in a shell script. (That way you can test it
>         directly without systemd, too.)
> 
>         With bash, you can use inline comments in arrays:
> 
>              #!/usr/bin/env bash
>              args=(
>                   -X POST                     # foo
>                   -d "fizz=systemd"           # some docs
>                   -d "some=else"              # more docs
>         https://requestb.in/foo
>              )
> 
>              exec curl "${args[@]}"
> 
> 
>     this is the worst recommendation one can give - really - that way
>     you easily lose all the advantages of systemd in case of error handling
> 
> 
> For example?

what is the MAINPID - bash or curl - in that case?

why inthe world should someone sacrifice the advantage of having the 
executebale directly started because of inline comments where a smart 
comments-block does the same

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/curl -X POST
-d "fizz=systemd"  # some docs
-d "some=else"      # more docs

versus

[Service]
# fizz: somedocs
# some: moredocs
ExecStart=/usr/bin/curl -X POST -d "fizz=systemd" -d "some=else"