diff --git a/man/systemd.service.xml b/man/systemd.service.xml
index b8f3bcad60..2bc318f9a9 100644
--- a/man/systemd.service.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.service.xml
@@ -807,24 +807,26 @@
RestartPreventExitStatus=
- Takes a list of exit status definitions that,
- when returned by the main service process, will prevent
- automatic service restarts, regardless of the restart setting
- configured with Restart=. Exit status
- definitions can either be numeric exit codes or termination
- signal names, and are separated by spaces. Defaults to the
- empty list, so that, by default, no exit status is excluded
- from the configured restart logic. For example:
+
+ Takes a list of exit status definitions that, when returned by the main service
+ process, will prevent automatic service restarts, regardless of the restart setting configured with
+ Restart=. Exit status definitions can either be numeric exit codes or termination
+ signal names, and are separated by spaces. Defaults to the empty list, so that, by default, no exit
+ status is excluded from the configured restart logic. For example:
RestartPreventExitStatus=1 6 SIGABRT
- ensures that exit codes 1 and 6 and the termination signal
- SIGABRT will not result in automatic
- service restarting. This option may appear more than once, in
- which case the list of restart-preventing statuses is
- merged. If the empty string is assigned to this option, the
- list is reset and all prior assignments of this option will
- have no effect.
+ ensures that exit codes 1 and 6 and the termination signal SIGABRT will not
+ result in automatic service restarting. This option may appear more than once, in which case the list
+ of restart-preventing statuses is merged. If the empty string is assigned to this option, the list is
+ reset and all prior assignments of this option will have no effect.
+
+ Note that this setting has no effect on processes configured via
+ ExecStartPre=, ExecStartPost=, ExecStop=,
+ ExecStopPost= or ExecReload=, but only on the main service
+ process, i.e. either the one invoked by ExecStart= or (depending on
+ Type=, PIDFile=, …) the otherwise configured main
+ process.