Subject: [PATCH] Notify systemd in daemon-initialized and kill-emacs

From: Lucas Werkmeister <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:01:08 +0200

With --[bg-]daemon and Type=forking, systemd will only consider the
daemon to have fully started up once the original process exits, and
will wait until then to start units depending on the Emacs service.  To
get the same functionality with --fg-daemon, use Type=notify instead of
Type=simple and explicitly send a readiness notification to systemd at
the point where the forked process would in --bg-daemon mode notify its
parent process and cause it to exit.  Similarly, notify systemd at the
beginning of the shutdown process as well.  (Both of these calls are
successful no-ops if emacs was not started by systemd.)
* etc/emacs.service: Update Type.
* src/emacs.c (daemon-initialized) [HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD]:
* src/emacs.c (kill-emacs) [HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD]: Call sd_notify().
---
 etc/NEWS          |  8 ++++++++
 etc/emacs.service |  2 +-
 src/emacs.c       | 11 +++++++++++
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 4ea3440754..ba693e7e52 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ work right without some adjustment:
 - you can use the new 'package-quickstart' so activation of packages does not
   need to pay attention to 'package-load-list' or 'package-user-dir' any more.
 
+---
+** Emacs now notifies systemd when startup finishes or shutdown begins.
+Units that are ordered after 'emacs.service' will only be started
+after Emacs has finished initialization and is ready for use.
+(If your Emacs is installed in a non-standard location and you copied the
+emacs.service file to eg ~/.config/systemd/user/, you will need to copy
+the new version of the file again.)
+
 
 * Changes in Emacs 27.1
 
diff --git a/etc/emacs.service b/etc/emacs.service
index b29177b120..dbcb6bc301 100644
--- a/etc/emacs.service
+++ b/etc/emacs.service
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Description=Emacs text editor
 Documentation=info:emacs man:emacs(1) https://gnu.org/software/emacs/
 
 [Service]
-Type=simple
+Type=notify
 ExecStart=emacs --fg-daemon
 ExecStop=emacsclient --eval "(kill-emacs)"
 Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/keyring/ssh
diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 8633e934e5..cde20fc096 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -2017,6 +2017,10 @@ all of which are called before Emacs is actually killed.  */
 {
   int exit_code;
 
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD
+  sd_notify(0, "STOPPING=1");
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD */
+
   /* Fsignal calls emacs_abort () if it sees that waiting_for_input is
      set.  */
   waiting_for_input = 0;
@@ -2477,6 +2481,13 @@ from the parent process and its tty file descriptors.  */)
     error ("This function can only be called after loading the init files");
 #ifndef WINDOWSNT
 
+  if (daemon_type == 1)
+    {
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD
+      sd_notify(0, "READY=1");
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD */
+    }
+
   if (daemon_type == 2)
     {
       int nfd;
-- 
2.17.1