On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 04:07:45PM +1100, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> >>> I don't think I like --force because it isn't clear if we are forcing
> >>> the start to have done something, or forcing the server to be running.
> > 
> > Do we need this idempotent feature for "stop" too?
> 
> Yes, of course.

If idempotent only affects -w (we don't wait for the return code without
-w), can we make -W to be idempotent?

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