Do a full restart rather than HUP if command line of a service has changed

By keeping track of when a full restart is needed, Finit can relieve
the user of having to track modifications to service configuration. This
also makes initctl reload easier to explain and reason about as the effect
of a reload should now be that any configuration updates to services will
be fully "commited" by initctl reload.

Signed-off-by: Jacques de Laval <Jacques.De.Laval@westermo.com>
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@@ -232,8 +232,11 @@ For more information, see [doc/plugins.md](doc/plugins.md).
By default, Finit monitors `/etc/finit.d/` and `/etc/finit.d/enabled/`
registering any changes to `.conf` files. To activate a change the user
must call `initctl reload`, which reloads all modified files, stops any
removed services, starts new ones, and restarts any modified ones, with
SIGHUP if the process supports it.
removed services, starts new ones, and restarts any modified ones. If the
command line arguments of a service have changed, the process will be
terminated and then started again with the updated arguments. If the arguments
have not been modified and the process supports SIGHUP, the process will
receive a SIGHUP rather than being terminated and started.
For some use-cases the extra step of calling `initctl reload` creates an
unnecessary overhead, which can be removed at build-time using: