* doc/guix.texi (Shepherd Services): Add paragraph on ‘user-processes’.
Suggested-by: Dariqq <dar...@posteo.net>
Change-Id: I76fb11779eefc90d13dbc11368ddf64f7450f5e6
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doc/guix.texi | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 1bfe76f016d..b525913c151 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -46142,6 +46142,13 @@ Shepherd Services
@item @code{requirement} (default: @code{'()})
List of symbols denoting the Shepherd services this one depends on.
+@cindex @code{user-processes} Shepherd service
+With very few exceptions, services that start a daemon must depend at
+least on the @code{user-processes} service; this ensures that these
+daemons are started after all the file systems have been mounted and
+that, during shutdown, they are stopped before attempting to terminate
+remaining user processes.
+
@cindex one-shot services, for the Shepherd
@item @code{one-shot?} (default: @code{#f})
Whether this service is @dfn{one-shot}. One-shot services stop immediately
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2.48.1
