On Wed, 24.08.11 11:18, Simo Sorce (simo@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > FWIW, I do think that there may be use-cases for socket activation of a > > database. I'd like to support the option ... the problem is to do so > > without breaking existing, expected behaviors. > > I am not sure you can, the only would be to have systemd have some way > to get callbacks from service to know when they are actually ready to > serve. This would make "After" more meaningful. Hmm, we have that. The traditional way is Type=forking plus double forking+exit in the parent. The nicer modern way is Type=notify and sd_notify("READY=1"). I am not entirely I am sure I follow what you are asking for, but do you need more thatn this? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel