You weren't looking very hard for such solutions, obviously, as you missed 20 years of stuff. The idea that applications do not have to have their own code to

You weren't looking very hard for such solutions, obviously, as you missed 20 years of stuff. The idea that applications do not have to have their own code to daemonize had been around for about a decade and a half before systemd was even an idea, and there were plenty of toolsets that one could employ to manage daemons where exactly this idea was part of the design. I myself was explaining not to make this design mistake before the turn of the century. * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-daemon-design-mistakes-to-avoid.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/unix-daemon-design-mistakes-to-avoid.ht... * http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html * http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/ http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/09/05/0/