(In reply to Michael Schr�der from comment #7) > And how would this work from a perl program? The daemon is implemented in perl ? that's not really common... (In reply to Michael Schr�der from comment #8) > Also note that this is *way* more complicated than it needs to be. Well, how do you plan to implement that exactly otherwise ? (In reply to Michael Schr�der from comment #9) > (It's also not clear to me that stopping the service will make systemd close > all stored fds. Is that the case?) Sure.