PEP idea - Daemon

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Sat, 24 May 2003 03:54:13 -0500, Ryan Morillo <srart at operamail.com> wrote:
> Am I the only one that thinks we should add daemonization to the os module? 
> After playing for a few days trying to figure it out, I was lucky enough to 
> find Jurgen's (sorry, don't know unicode for umlatts on the "u") code for 
> how to do it in *nix (cookbook recipie 6.7), I think I've stumbled across 
> it in windows once (example in win32 stuff), but adding it to the stdlib 
> seems like a good idea to me.

    I wouldn't mind, if it were flexible enough. For example, daemon's
forking by default are a pain if you want to put the daemon under
supervision via daemontools. Every daemon should have a 'nofork' option,
like -f or something. That, and options for uid/gid to run under, etc.

    My 2cents.

    Mike

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