man: add a note about propagating signals

diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 27f069f6b2a5ccaabbefecc4071c37b9fa9b9fde..98507f405f96e96a632dd9d45031c5e99b5ff4dc 100644 (file)
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -734,22 +734,33 @@ ExecStart=/bin/echo $ONE $TWO ${TWO}
                                 considered successful termination, in
                                 addition to the normal successful exit
                                 code 0 and the signals <constant>SIGHUP</constant>, <constant>SIGINT</constant>,
                                 considered successful termination, in
                                 addition to the normal successful exit
                                 code 0 and the signals <constant>SIGHUP</constant>, <constant>SIGINT</constant>,

-                                <constant>SIGTERM</constant> and <constant>SIGPIPE</constant>. Exit status
+                                <constant>SIGTERM</constant>, and <constant>SIGPIPE</constant>. Exit status

                                 definitions can either be numeric exit
                                 codes or termination signal names,
                                 definitions can either be numeric exit
                                 codes or termination signal names,

-                                separated by spaces. Example:
-                                <literal>SuccessExitStatus=1 2 8
-                                <constant>SIGKILL</constant></literal>, ensures that exit
-                                codes 1, 2, 8 and the termination
-                                signal <constant>SIGKILL</constant> are considered clean
-                                service terminations. This option may
-                                appear more than once in which case
-                                the list of successful exit statuses
-                                is merged. If the empty string is
-                                assigned to this option, the list is
-                                reset, all prior assignments of this
-                                option will have no
-                                effect.</para></listitem>
+                                separated by spaces. For example:
+                               <programlisting>SuccessExitStatus=1 2 8 <constant>SIGKILL</constant></programlisting>
+                               ensures that exit codes 1, 2, 8 and
+                               the termination signal
+                               <constant>SIGKILL</constant> are
+                               considered clean service terminations.
+                               </para>
+
+                               <para>Note that if a process has a
+                               signal handler installed and exits by
+                               calling
+                               <citerefentry><refentrytitle>_exit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                               in response to a signal, the
+                               information about the signal is lost.
+                               Programs should instead perform cleanup and kill themselves with the same signal instead. See
+                               <ulink url="http://www.cons.org/cracauer/sigint.html">Proper handling of SIGINT/SIGQUIT — How to be a proper program</ulink>.</para>
+
+                               <para>This option may appear more than once
+                               in which case the list of successful
+                               exit statuses is merged. If the empty
+                               string is assigned to this option, the
+                               list is reset, all prior assignments
+                               of this option will have no
+                               effect.</para></listitem>

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