[Python-ideas] Draft PEP: Standard daemon process library

[Antoine Pitrou]

Jesse Noller <jnoller at ...> writes:
> Windows Services != Unix daemons. Admittedly, I haven't had to do it
> in awhile, but from what I remember, windows services are nowhere near
> the same type of beast as a unix daemon, and trying to make a unified
> daemon library that glosses over the differences might cause seizures
> and habitual smoking.

That would be like a portable library which would allow to write multiprocess
programs by glossing over the differences between Unix and Windows processes...
Wouldn't it?