Comment 15 for bug 1429938

Except that previously this wasn't racy behavior in practice.

I have automation tooling that has executed tens of thousands of reboot and shutdown commands over SSH in this way with perfect consistency over the last two years. The moment the switchover to systemd happened in Vivid, this tooling broken.

I get that my assumptions weren't robust and that I have to change my tools to accommodate systemd (which I already did). But communicating this change is courteous and helpful, very Ubuntu if you will.

And this isn't something that needs to be prominent. It just effects people working with servers, VMs, etc, not everyday desktop users.