From 33169701b0640d3629d4c36cf8c71dc26d2cb7e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 01:33:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: clarify that the ExecReload= command should be synchronous http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019054.html --- man/systemd.service.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git man/systemd.service.xml man/systemd.service.xml index af32ccb..364ad7d 100644 --- man/systemd.service.xml +++ man/systemd.service.xml @@ -519,6 +519,20 @@ ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO} following: /bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID + + Note however that reloading a + daemon by sending a signal (as with + the example line above) is usually not + a good choice, because this is an + asynchronous operation and hence not + suitable to order reloads of multiple + services against each other. It is + strongly recommended to set + ExecReload= to a + command that no only triggers a + configuration reload of the daemon, + but also synchronously waits for it + complete. -- 1.7.9.2