Christoph Anton Mitterer 07f4718242 man: clarify what “failed” means ...

systemd.service(5)’s documentation of `ExecCondition=` uses “failed” with
respect to the unit active state.
In particular the unit won’t be considered failed when `ExecCondition=`’s
command exits with a status of 1 through 254 (inclusive). It will however, when
it exits with 255 or abnormally (e.g. timeout, killed by a signal, etc.).

The table “Defined $SERVICE_RESULT values” in systemd.exec(5) uses “failed”
however rather with respect to the condition.

Tests seem to have shown that, if the exit status of the `ExecCondition=`
command is one of 1 through 254 (inclusive), `$SERVICE_RESULT` will be
`exec-condition`, if it is 255, `$SERVICE_RESULT` will be `exit-code` (but
`$EXIT_CODE` and `$EXIT_STATUS` will be empty or unset), if it’s killed because
of `SIGKILL`, `$SERVICE_RESULT` will `signal` and if it times out,
`$SERVICE_RESULT` will be `timeout`.

This commit clarifies the table at least for the case of an exit status of 1
through 254 (inclusive).
The others (signal, timeout and 255 are probably also still ambiguous (e.g.
`signal` uses “A service process”, which could be considered as the actual
service process only).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>

2025-11-06 10:47:06 +01:00

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