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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2025-02-22 23:20:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2025-02-23 22:53:13 +0100 |
| commit | bcb772d7d00346f97557040469d2d5021f5e80ba (patch) | |
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doc: Write about depending on the ‘user-processes’ Shepherd service.
* doc/guix.texi (Shepherd Services): Add paragraph on ‘user-processes’.
Suggested-by: Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net>
Change-Id: I76fb11779eefc90d13dbc11368ddf64f7450f5e6
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 1bfe76f016..b525913c15 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -46142,6 +46142,13 @@ shepherd, The GNU Shepherd Manual}, for details. @item @code{requirement} (default: @code{'()}) List of symbols denoting the Shepherd services this one depends on. +@cindex @code{user-processes} Shepherd service +With very few exceptions, services that start a daemon must depend at +least on the @code{user-processes} service; this ensures that these +daemons are started after all the file systems have been mounted and +that, during shutdown, they are stopped before attempting to terminate +remaining user processes. + @cindex one-shot services, for the Shepherd @item @code{one-shot?} (default: @code{#f}) Whether this service is @dfn{one-shot}. One-shot services stop immediately |