service: document new Type=idle

[elogind.git] / man / systemd.service.xml

diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 837a992ba4fa1f17f419e86ad73115699facd7df..0baeb75445169c250e6f2022a4653ad093655186 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@
   Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
 
   systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-  under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.
 
   systemd is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-  General Public License for more details.
+  Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
-  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
   along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 -->
 
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@
                                 <option>forking</option>,
                                 <option>oneshot</option>,
                                 <option>dbus</option>,
-                                <option>notify</option>.</para>
+                                <option>notify</option> or
+                                <option>idle</option>.</para>
 
                                 <para>If set to
                                 <option>simple</option> (the default
@@ -201,6 +202,16 @@
                                 <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> is
                                 not set, it will be implicitly set to
                                 <option>main</option>.</para>
+
+                                <para>Behaviour of
+                                <option>idle</option> is very similar
+                                to <option>idle</option>, however
+                                actual execution of a the service
+                                binary is delayed until all jobs are
+                                dispatched. This may be used to avoid
+                                interleaving of output of shell
+                                services with the status output on the
+                                console.</para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>