core: let user define start-/stop-timeout behaviour
The usual behaviour when a timeout expires is to terminate/kill the service. This is what user usually want in production systems. To debug services that fail to start/stop (especially sporadic failures) it might be necessary to trigger the watchdog machinery and write core dumps, though. Likewise, it is usually just a waste of time to gracefully stop a stuck service. Instead it might save time to go directly into kill mode. This commit adds two new options to services: TimeoutStartFailureMode= and TimeoutStopFailureMode=. Both take the same values and tweak the behavior of systemd when a start/stop timeout expires: * 'terminate': is the default behaviour as it has always been, * 'abort': triggers the watchdog machinery and will send SIGABRT (unless WatchdogSignal was changed) and * 'kill' will directly send SIGKILL. To handle the stop failure mode in stop-post state too a new final-watchdog state needs to be introduced.
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