Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
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<refnamediv>
<refname>systemd-notify</refname>
- <refpurpose>Notify init system about start-up completion and other daemon status changes</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Notify service manager about start-up completion and other daemon status changes</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><option>--h</option></term>
+ <term><option>-h</option></term>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem><para>Prints a short help
text and exits.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--version</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Prints a short version
+ string and exits.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--ready</option></term>
<listitem><para>Inform the init system
about the main PID of the
daemon. Takes a PID as argument. If
- the argument is omitted the PID of the
+ the argument is omitted, the PID of the
process that invoked
<command>systemd-notify</command> is
used. This is equivalent to
<listitem><para>Returns 0 if the
system was booted up with systemd,
non-zero otherwise. If this option is
- passed no message is sent. This option
+ passed, no message is sent. This option
is hence unrelated to the other
options. For details about the
- semantics of this option see
+ semantics of this option, see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_booted</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--readahead=</option></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Controls disk
+ read-ahead operations. The argument
+ must be a string, and either "cancel",
+ "done" or "noreplay". For details
+ about the semantics of this option see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd_readahead</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>