Whenever I bring this up, I get a list of complicated platform-specific workarounds. My point here is that unit file behavior, as outlined, should be the default. You should never have an incomplete unit file around and readable.
Agreed. There are so many infuriating software bugs I've hit by "something was watching file X and tried to consume it mid-write and pooped it's pants because there was invalid data".
Not small things, either - I mean like "IIS crashed all our apps are down we have minutes before SLA problems".
