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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2017-11-13 18:19:53 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2017-11-27 17:01:09 +0100
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downloadsystemd-8d1ab18a466b44a8641899f871fa322e395fdd36.tar.gz
man: slightly improve the sd_notify() documentation regarding READY=1
READY=1 may be used to signal when a service finished startup, but also when it finished reloading. Say so.
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diff --git a/man/sd_notify.xml b/man/sd_notify.xml
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@@ -124,12 +124,10 @@
<varlistentry>
<term>READY=1</term>
- <listitem><para>Tells the service manager that service startup
- is finished. This is only used by systemd if the service
- definition file has Type=notify set. Since there is little
- value in signaling non-readiness, the only value services
- should send is <literal>READY=1</literal> (i.e.
- <literal>READY=0</literal> is not defined).</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Tells the service manager that service startup is finished, or the service finished loading its
+ configuration. This is only used by systemd if the service definition file has <varname>Type=notify</varname>
+ set. Since there is little value in signaling non-readiness, the only value services should send is
+ <literal>READY=1</literal> (i.e. <literal>READY=0</literal> is not defined).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>