Can a service application restart itself as a service?

[Francis Grizzly Smit]

On 20/05/2021 22:23, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I am writing a service application for Linux.
> I want it to be able to restart itself, but I don't now the best way to do it.

I believe daemon tools does this but when I google it it doesn't seam to 
be open source

> To use cron to issue "systemctrl restart service" at a given time does not cut
> it because the application might be busy doing things at that time.
> It has to be in an idle state when it restarts.
>
> The only thing I could figure out is if the application itself can restart the
> service from within when it has reached a safe idle spot.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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