On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 19:57 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > 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? Ah although I have read the systemd header files that are used for inclusion in apps I completely forgot about sd_notify(). I don't think anything else is really necessary. Thanks! Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel