Hey, What do you mean by doesn't do forking? It allows forking processes if the application can do that. It doesn't fork them by default but ,is it really needed? If xenstored is testing to be run under systemd and not forks itself because of it, that's another thing. Eliezer On 09/09/2015 12:40, George Dunlap wrote: > I think because systemd doesn't do forking, that it doesn't need a > pidfile. In fact, if xenstored detects that it's running under > systemd, it will actually ignore the --pid-file directive. > > -George