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Clarify the documentation about the restart function

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Restart has never been able to be overridden in OpenRc, but there is a
way to make your service script behave differently when restart is being
executed.

X-Gentoo-Bug: 480866
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480866
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William Hubbs 2013-08-13 12:12:43 -05:00
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@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ First we ensure that any services that depend on us are stopped. If any
services that need us fail to stop then we exit with a suitable error,
otherwise call the supplied stop function if it exists.
.It Ar restart
Stop and start the service, including dependencies.
Stop and start the service, including dependencies. This cannot be
overridden. See the description of the RC_CMD variable below for the
method to make your service behave differently when restart is being
executed.
.It Ar status
Show the status of the service. The return code matches the status, with the
exception of "started" returning 0 to match standard command behaviour.
@ -362,7 +365,8 @@ offset. Otherwise it is undefined.
The result of `uname -s`.
.It Va RC_CMD
This contains the name of the command the service script is executing, such
as start, stop, restart etc.
as start, stop, restart etc. One example of using this is to make a
service script behave differently when restart is being executed.
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