On 17 May 2018 at 19:23, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > So yes, this is a bug in nginx. They really should fix that. And this > is not only broken when you use systemd, but on sysvinit too, as a > command like this would likely fail there too: "service nginx start > service nginx status", as the start would return before the PID file > is written, and then status would claim the service to be down... Given that systemd deals with this situation in a very reasonable way, nginx must not be alone in doing this. And if this a common way to write such code, perhaps it should not be considered a bug but rather one more peculiarity of application services the service manager should deal....