chiark / gitweb /
service: document new Type=idle
authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:32:26 +0000 (20:32 +0200)
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:52:07 +0000 (10:52 +0200)
man/systemd.service.xml

index 258b059efa26b45f4a72ccfaf93d08642504c721..0baeb75445169c250e6f2022a4653ad093655186 100644 (file)
                                 <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
                                 <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>