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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2019-10-29 18:07:07 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2019-11-05 21:38:21 +0100
commit7f3614e5479446bbd5a2bdf6aed4962e8d803e35 (patch)
tree6ee77de900700d8e70487cc643b2fb19ce236f34 /man/systemd-run.xml
parentf1d60962e5f21e2af7af9e8bc06ecf28da89e1b1 (diff)
downloadsystemd-7f3614e5479446bbd5a2bdf6aed4962e8d803e35.tar.gz
run: propagate return code/status from the child
Fixes #13756. We were returning things that didn't make much sense: we would always use the exit_code value as the exit code. But it sometimes contains a exit code from the process, and sometimes the number of a signal that was used to kill the process. We would also ignore SuccessExitStatus= and in general whether systemd thinks the service exited successfully (hence the issue in #13756, where systemd would return success/SIGTERM, but we'd just look at the SIGTERM part.) If we are doing --wait, let's always propagate the exit code/status from the child. While at it, make the documentation useful.
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diff --git a/man/systemd-run.xml b/man/systemd-run.xml
index 610c3acd37..3a1d18dae9 100644
--- a/man/systemd-run.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-run.xml
@@ -399,8 +399,13 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Exit status</title>
- <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
- code otherwise.</para>
+ <para>On success, 0 is returned. If <command>systemd-run</command> failed to start the service, a
+ non-zero return value will be returned. If <command>systemd-run</command> waits for the service to
+ terminate, the return value will be propagated from the service. 0 will be returned on success, including
+ all the cases where systemd considers a service to have exited cleanly, see the discussion of
+ <varname>SuccessExitStatus=</varname> in
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ </para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -503,6 +508,16 @@ There is a screen on:
<programlisting>$ loginctl enable-linger</programlisting>
</example>
+
+ <example>
+ <title>Return value</title>
+
+ <programlisting>$ systemd-run --user --wait true
+$ systemd-run --user --wait -p SuccessExitStatus=11 bash -c 'exit 11'
+$ systemd-run --user --wait -p SuccessExitStatus=SIGUSR1 bash -c 'kill -SIGUSR1 $$$$'</programlisting>
+
+ <para>Those three invocations will succeed, i.e. terminate with an exit code of 0.</para>
+ </example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>