From 8f28dfd721f72908ec9f629b4d9092c6b2008e5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Davin McCall Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:32:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] man pages: reword description of depends-ms dependency. --- doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 b/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 index 14b578d..6287ebe 100644 --- a/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 +++ b/doc/manpages/dinit-service.5 @@ -153,9 +153,10 @@ this service will also be stopped. .TP \fBdepends\-ms\fR = \fIservice-name\fR This service has a "milestone" dependency on the named service. Starting this -service will start the named service; the command to start this service will -not be executed until the named service has started. If the named service is -stopped then the dependency is dropped until this service is next started. +service will start the named service; this service will not start until the +named service has started, and will fail to start if the named service does +not start. Once the named service reaches the started state, however, the +dependency is effectively dropped until this service is next started. .TP \fBwaits\-for\fR = \fIservice-name\fR When this service is started, wait for the named service to finish starting -- 2.25.1