This means that systemd can create the directory itself without having
to spawn a shell. systemd's documentation says that /var/run must be
a symlink to /run, so it's fine for the systemd unit file to create
/run/userv and assume that also creates /var/run/userv.
[Service]
Type=forking
-ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'test -d /var/run/userv || mkdir -m700 /var/run/userv'
+RuntimeDirectory=userv
+RuntimeDirectoryMode=0700
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/uservd -daemon
KillMode=process