Bug#752055: ambiguous option name "Type=forking"

Harald Dunkel harri at afaics.de
Wed May 13 11:35:29 BST 2015


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On 05/05/15 09:35, md at Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> On May 04, Harald Dunkel <harri at afaics.de> wrote:
> 
>> I know the difference between doing a fork(2) and creating a daemon. Instead of pointing to foreign documentation I would suggest to call it "type=daemon", if systemd creates a daemon,
> This is part of the Systemd API and will not be changed for frivolous reasons. It will definitely not be changed as a Debian-specific patch.
> 

"frivolous"? :-)

>> or to explain in the man page, why creating a daemon has been called "forking", ignoring all the other man pages you have listed.
> It looks clear enough to me, but maybe you can persuade the upstream maintainers to accept a documentation patch.
> 

Probably you are right to stay compatible with upstream. I wouldn't
like to make things worse.


Regards
Harri

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