[Baypiggies] daemonize

[Daryl Spitzer]

I haven't read the cookbook recipe (yet), but I thought you may find
http://daemonize.sourceforge.net/ useful.  (I heard about it in a
PyCon 2008 lightning talk.  I haven't tried it yet, though I expect I
will soon.)

--
Daryl


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>  > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  > The Python Cookbook has a pretty good module for daemonizing a
>  >  > process.  It's not something that's likely to change, since this
>  >  > procedure has been the same for a decade or longer.  Has anyone
>  >  > brought up the idea of including it in the standard library?  I'm
>  >  > actually pretty surprised it's not there already.
>  >
>  >  There's been some discussion of adding a pyprocess module similar to the
>  >  threading library -- it probably should go with that.  As always, patches
>  >  are welcome.  ;-)
>
>  I like the processing module.  I personally think that's a good
>  candidate for the standard library too.  Personally, I think a
>  daemonize function is different.  If anything, I think the posix
>  module would be a better fit.
>
>  The code I'm referring to is in the Python Cookbook.  It's trivial to
>  provide a patch.  I was just wondering if there was a reason it hadn't
>  been done already.  I know how hard it is to get things into the
>  standard library, so I'm skittish.
>
>
>  -jj
>
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