A stupid solution?

Author: emmatyping

mypy/dmypy.py

@@ -173,12 +173,16 @@ def do_restart(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
 
 def restart_server(args: argparse.Namespace, allow_sources: bool = False) -> None:
     """Restart daemon (it may or may not be running; but not hanging)."""
+    with open(STATUS_FILE) as file:
+        before = file.read()
     try:
         do_stop(args)
     except BadStatus:
         # Bad or missing status file or dead process; good to start.
         pass
     start_server(args, allow_sources)
+    with open(STATUS_FILE) as file:
+        print(f"before:{before} after:{file.read()}", file=sys.stderr)
 
 
 def start_server(args: argparse.Namespace, allow_sources: bool = False) -> None: