Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> This turns out to be due to a… miscompilation bug.
>
> In (shepherd scripts herd), ‘run-command’ has this code:
>
>   (let ((sock    (open-connection socket-file))
>         (action* (if (and (eq? action 'detailed-status)
>                           (memq service '(root shepherd)))
>                      'status
>                      action)))
>     …)
>
> Problem is that everything works as if (eq? action 'detailed-status)
> was omitted, such that ‘herd stop root’ is interpreted as ‘herd status
> root’.

A workaround that works with 3.0.7 is swapping the two ‘and’
sub-expressions: