Why can't ExecStopPre= be used to abort stopping a (broken) service?

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:10:28PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:55:59PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > If I grok correctly what you are asking for, you are actually looing for
> > an ExecRestartPre=, not an ExecStopPre=. You want somthing that is run
> > before we stop a service when we intend to restart it. But when we
> > shutdown the system and stop the service for that, or if the user wants
> > to stop it manually, we shouldn't run it, correct?
> > 
> > If that's what you want, then yes, it is on the TODO list to add
> > something like this, but ExecStopPre= is not what you want, it would
> > have very different semantics.
> 
> Possibly related question: Is there a way to start a daemon with
> different options on restart than on start, something like
> ExecRestart?
> 
> This would allow restarting chronyd with the -r option to load old
> samples and speed up the initial synchronization.

  Can't you use ”-r” always?

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