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From 1c8b76caab7d5164ac2d0d09aff9e4ffecdf205e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 18:01:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] man: document that ExecStartPre= is not the place to start
long-running processes
(cherry picked from commit b481de3b22fcd838a8f059aed8745375afdb9eca)
---
man/systemd.service.xml | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index c03b4e8a5..f59870563 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -334,6 +334,11 @@
<para>If any of those commands (not prefixed with
<literal>-</literal>) fail, the rest are not executed and the
unit is considered failed.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> may not be
+ used to start long-running processes. All processes forked
+ off by processes invoked via <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> will
+ be killed before the next service process is run.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>