Add note about transactions being genereated independently of a unit's state.

Meanwhile, change dead -> inactive as it is not a unit state.
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bl33pbl0p 2019-01-16 20:53:42 +00:00 committed by Lennart Poettering
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loaded into memory are those for which at least one of the following conditions is true:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>It is in an active, activating, deactivating or failed state (i.e. in any unit state except for <literal>dead</literal>)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It is in an active, activating, deactivating or failed state (i.e. in any unit state except for <literal>inactive</literal>)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It has a job queued for it</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It is a dependency of some sort of at least one other unit that is loaded into memory</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>It has some form of resource still allocated (e.g. a service unit that is inactive but for which
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means that before executing a requested operation, systemd will
verify that it makes sense, fixing it if possible, and only
failing if it really cannot work.</para>
<para>Note that transactions are generated independently of a unit's
state at runtime, hence, for example, if a start job is requested on an
already started unit, it will still generate a transaction and wake up any
inactive dependencies (and cause propagation of other jobs as per the
defined relationships). This is because the enqueued job is at the time of
execution compared to the target unit's state and is marked successful and
complete when both satisfy. However, this job also pulls in other
dependencies due to the defined relationships and thus leads to, in our
our example, start jobs for any of those inactive units getting queued as
well.</para>
<para>systemd contains native implementations of various tasks
that need to be executed as part of the boot process. For example,