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authorLuca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>2024-10-03 21:50:38 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2024-10-04 12:22:55 +0200
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man: consolidate list of active unit states into a shared table
Avoids the need to maintain the same list over and over again, and link it to the defition table in the implementation as a reminder too
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described in
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
however some are created automatically from other configuration files, dynamically from system state or
- programmatically at runtime. Units may be "active" (meaning started, bound, plugged in, …, depending on
- the unit type, see below), or "inactive" (meaning stopped, unbound, unplugged, …), as well as in the
- process of being activated or deactivated, i.e. between the two states (these states are called
- "activating", "deactivating"). A special "failed" state is available as well, which is very similar to
- "inactive" and is entered when the service failed in some way (process returned error code on exit, or
- crashed, an operation timed out, or after too many restarts). If this state is entered, the cause will
- be logged, for later reference. Units may also be in a special transient state for a time, to indicate
- that some operation is being performed on them, before reverting to the previous state, such as
- "maintenance", "reloading" or "refreshing". Note that the various unit types may have a number of
- additional substates, which are mapped to the five generalized unit states described here.</para>
+ programmatically at runtime. Units may be in a number of states, described in the following table. Note
+ that the various unit types may have a number of additional substates, which are mapped to the
+ generalized unit states described here.</para>
+
+ <xi:include href="unit-states.xml" xpointer="table"/>
<para>The following unit types are available:</para>