Bug#727708: Info received (Bug#727708: requirement of non-forking startup protocol)

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>]

> Yeah, most daemons that write external PID files have issues with external
> PID files left from other running instances of the same daemon.  (I assume
> that's what you're talking about.)  It's probably possible to avoid that
> with judicious use of file locking, but that's not common and is more
> complex.

systemd will unlink the pidfile after the daemon is stopped (and during
restart, etc.). Stale files shouldn't be an issue.

Zbyszek