bind-chroot, runs, works, dies

[Tony Finch]

Petr Mensik <pemensik at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> But presence of pid files also work as notification of completed
> initialization (which is done BEFORE forking and finishing ExecStart
> command).

named writes its pidfile relatively early during startup. The parent
doesn't exit until the child daemon has finished starting, so that's a
better notification (though not what systemd wants...).

> Service type=simple is not good replacement of forking, because it does
> not let you know when service failed to start at all.

Good grief.

Tony.
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