service failed to start up correctly. Commands configured with this setting need to be able to operate even if
the service failed starting up half-way and left incompletely initialized data around. As the service's
processes have been terminated already when the commands specified with this setting are executed they should
- not attempt to communicate with them.</para></listitem>
+ not attempt to communicate with them.</para>
+
+ <para>Note that all commands that are configured with this setting are invoked with the result code of the
+ service, as well as the main process' exit code and status, set in the <varname>$SERVICE_RESULT</varname>,
+ <varname>$EXIT_CODE</varname> and <varname>$EXIT_STATUS</varname> environment variables, see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
+ details.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
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