From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:32:26 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: service: document new Type=idle
X-Git-Tag: debian/247.3-7+deb11u1~2386^2^2~3187
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service: document new Type=idle
---

diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index 258b059ef..0baeb7544 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@
                                 <option>forking</option>,
                                 <option>oneshot</option>,
                                 <option>dbus</option>,
-                                <option>notify</option>.</para>
+                                <option>notify</option> or
+                                <option>idle</option>.</para>
 
                                 <para>If set to
                                 <option>simple</option> (the default
@@ -201,6 +202,16 @@
                                 <varname>NotifyAccess=</varname> is
                                 not set, it will be implicitly set to
                                 <option>main</option>.</para>
+
+                                <para>Behaviour of
+                                <option>idle</option> is very similar
+                                to <option>idle</option>, however
+                                actual execution of a the service
+                                binary is delayed until all jobs are
+                                dispatched. This may be used to avoid
+                                interleaving of output of shell
+                                services with the status output on the
+                                console.</para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>