[jude-]

> When the traditional sysvinit starts and stops processes, it actually has no clue what it's doing and thus init scripts need to rely on PID files and other hacks to provide basic functionality.

Tooting my own horn here, but I wrote a filesystem called runfs that specifically addresses this. A service writes a PID file to runfs, and runfs automatically removes it once the process dies.

Code: https://github.com/jcnelson/runfs