[systemd-devel] option to wait for pid file to appear

[Reindl Harald]

Am 17.05.2018 um 12:12 schrieb Igor Bukanov:
> On 17 May 2018 at 11:58, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried without the PIDFile= setting at all?
> 
> As far as I can see that breaks live updates that nginx supports where
> it starts a new process and workers and then gracefully terminates the
> old main

this would be anyways broken because systemd reads the PIDFile once at
start to dtermine MAINPID and if MAINPID goes away the service fails