EXIT_STATUS is missing from "stopping" on respawn

[Peter D]

I have Job A that exits with code 2 if it's in need of Task B to be run before A is restarted. I use the respawn stanza in A and "start on stopping A EXIT_STATUS=2" in B, along with the "task" stanza to make B complete before A respawns.

The issue is that having the respawn stanza in A causes EXIT_STATUS to not appear in the "stopping" environment for B.

You can reproduce this using these two simple jobs:

A.conf:

exec cat sadjkbdsaflkjb #returns exit code 1

respawn
respawn limit 2 30

B.conf:

start on stopping A
task

script
  echo "exit status $EXIT_STATUS"
  # should print exit status 1 to log
end script

If you remove the respawn from A, task B prints "exit status 1" as expected. With the respawn though, the EXIT_STATUS seems to be thrown away.

This is a major problem for me, because I need a task to be run before a respawn on a certain exit code, but can find no way of doing so.