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+ipc: Use libbsd pidfile to detect running Monado instances.
+Enables automatically deleting stale socket files.
+The socket file is now placed in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/monado_comp_ipc by default
+or falls back to /tmp/monado_comp_ipc again if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.