[systemd-devel] Why ExecStop when service receives SIGTERM?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 18.03.19 um 19:27 schrieb Felipe Gasper:
> 	I’m noticing that ExecStop handlers execute not merely as a means for systemd to stop a Service but also when that Service’s main process receives SIGTERM.
> 
> 	The documentation (systemd.service) says that ExecStop commands are how systemd stops the service; it’s not at all intuitive from that, IMO, that these would also run when something _else_ stops the service.
> 
> 	Am I missing something in the documentation, or is this a bug?
> 
> 	I’m running release 219.

219 sounds like CentOS/RHEL 7

at least httpd has a patch for "type=notify" which also results in
"apachectl graceful" showing systemd service reload other than on
unpatched httpd

so i guess that behavior has something to to with direct support of
systemd and type=notify