Moving pid files from /var/run/$name.pid to /var/run/$name/$name.pid

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:08 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

> /var/run/$name.pid is the standard pid file location for daemons and has been so
> for ages. A lot of distros depend on this, and we used to depend on it until we
> moved to systemd which no longer cares about pid files.

Right, so why not just configure the daemon to stop writing the pid file
at all?