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                                 complete and all communication
                                 channels set up. The child continues
                                 to run as the main daemon
-                                process. This is the behaviour of
+                                process. This is the behavior of
                                 traditional UNIX daemons. If this
                                 setting is used, it is recommended to
                                 also use the
                                 soon as the parent process
                                 exits.</para>
 
-                                <para>Behaviour of
+                                <para>Behavior of
                                 <option>oneshot</option> is similar
                                 to <option>simple</option>, however
                                 it is expected that the process has to
                                 is particularly useful for this type
                                 of service.</para>
 
-                                <para>Behaviour of
+                                <para>Behavior of
                                 <option>dbus</option> is similar to
                                 <option>simple</option>, however it is
                                 expected that the daemon acquires a
                                 <varname>BusName=</varname> is
                                 specified.</para>
 
-                                <para>Behaviour of
+                                <para>Behavior of
                                 <option>notify</option> is similar to
                                 <option>simple</option>, however it is
                                 expected that the daemon sends a
                                 not set, it will be implicitly set to
                                 <option>main</option>.</para>
 
-                                <para>Behaviour of
+                                <para>Behavior of
                                 <option>idle</option> is very similar
                                 to <option>simple</option>, however
                                 actual execution of a the service
                                 argument (i.e. the program to execute)
                                 may not be a variable, and must be a
                                 literal and absolute path
-                                name.</para></listitem>
+                                name.</para>
+
+                                <para>Note that this setting does not
+                                directly support shell command
+                                lines. If shell command lines are to
+                                be used they need to be passed
+                                explicitly to a shell implementation
+                                of some kind. Example:
+                                <literal>ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'dmesg | tac'</literal></para>
+                                </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 hit a timeout.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>SuccessExitStatus=</varname></term>
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a list of exit
+                                status definitions that when returned
+                                by the main service process will be
+                                considered successful termination, in
+                                addition to the normal successful exit
+                                code 0 and the signals SIGHUP, SIGINT,
+                                SIGTERM and SIGPIPE. Exit status
+                                definitions can either be numeric exit
+                                codes or termination signal names, and
+                                are separated by spaces. Example:
+                                "<literal>SuccessExitStatus=1 2 8
+                                SIGKILL</literal>", ensures that exit
+                                codes 1, 2, 8 and the termination
+                                signal SIGKILL are considered clean
+                                service
+                                terminations.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>RestartPreventExitStatus=</varname></term>
+                                <listitem><para>Takes a list of exit
+                                status definitions that when returned
+                                by the main service process will
+                                prevent automatic service restarts
+                                regardless of the restart setting
+                                configured with
+                                <varname>Restart=</varname>. Exit
+                                status definitions can either be
+                                numeric exit codes or termination
+                                signal names, and are separated by
+                                spaces. Defaults to the empty list, so
+                                that by default no exit status is
+                                excluded from the configured restart
+                                logic. Example:
+                                "<literal>RestartPreventExitStatus=1 6
+                                SIGABRT</literal>", ensures that exit
+                                codes 1 and 6 and the termination signal
+                                SIGABRT will not result in automatic
+                                service restarting.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
+
                         <varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>PermissionsStartOnly=</varname></term>
                                 <listitem><para>Takes a boolean