A nice thing about the SIGSTOP mechanism is that it can trivially be used even in programs not written in C. Any Perl or Python script (and there are plenty of daemons written in these languages) can send itself SIGSTOP. Using sd_notify requires to re-implement the protocol or to add C adaptor code just for this...
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