Running python as a deamon (rfork)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

henk_p at my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Y'all,
> 
> I want to run the python interpreter as a deamon process. So when
> I exit the shell it started from it keeps on running in the background.
> I know this is possible under unix by using the nohup command, but
> that is not a very nice solution.
> I already hacked python's main.c file to recognize a new -b startup
> parameter. In this code I do a POSIX rfork(NOWAIT) when the -b parameter
> is processed. The parent process returns to the shell, the
> child process will continue in the background.
> now you can do:
> 
> python -b loopd.py
> 
> And loopd keeps on running forever, and python returns its PID to the
> shell.

You can use one of the many daemonize functions that have been posted
to this list. dejanews will probably bring up a whole bunch of them.
 
> It would also be possible to do this in a module, but the POSIX module
> does not export the rfork function.
> Can somebody tell me why rfork() is not included in the posix module?.

Can't find it on Linux ... are you sure about it being POSIX conform ?

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