Merge pull request #930 from richardmaw-codethink/man-when-exec-start-post

man: Describe when ExecStartFoo= commands are run in more detail
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Lennart Poettering 2015-08-16 18:11:18 +02:00
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<literal>-</literal>) fail, the rest are not executed and the
unit is considered failed.</para>
<para><varname>ExecStart=</varname> commands are only run after
all <varname>ExecStartPre=</varname> commands that were not prefixed
with a <literal>-</literal> exit successfully.</para>
<para><varname>ExecStartPost=</varname> commands are only run after
the service has started, as determined by <varname>Type=</varname>
(i.e. The process has been started for <varname>Type=simple</varname>
or <varname>Type=idle</varname>, the process exits successfully for
<varname>Type=oneshot</varname>, the initial process exits successfully
for <varname>Type=forking</varname>, <literal>READY=1</literal> is sent
for <varname>Type=notify</varname>, or the <varname>BusName=</varname>
has been taken for <varname>Type=dbus</varname>).</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