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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#40672: shepherd fails to terminate processes after PID file
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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 23:16:02 +0200
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As discussed during <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40572>, in
Shepherd 0.7.0, if a process created with =E2=80=98fork+exec-command=E2=80=
=99 & co. with
#:pid-file fails to start before #:pid-file-timeout has expired,
shepherd marks it as failed but the process potentially just keeps
running.

Ludo=E2=80=99.