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

[Felipe Gasper]

> On Mar 18, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 	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.
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>> 	Am I missing something in the documentation, or is this a bug?
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>> 	I’m running release 219.
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> 219 sounds like CentOS/RHEL 7
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> at least httpd has a patch for "type=notify" which also results in
> "apachectl graceful" showing systemd service reload other than on
> unpatched httpd
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> so i guess that behavior has something to to with direct support of
> systemd and type=notify

Yeah, I’m on CentOS 7.

Are you saying that this is a bug that later systemd releases have fixed?

-FG