[PYTHONMAC-SIG] daemons on the Mac

[Anthony M. Ingraldi]

>Shouldn't that be listen(1)?  I use socket stuff on the Mac "all the
>time" and it's all working for me...  but on some systems listen(0)
>really doesn't work...
>

I changed the listen(0) to listen(1) and the server works.  However, if I
bring the server application to the front I have to force quit it or my Mac
is stuck racing around the 'while 1' loop.  Can a python app be made into a
faceless background app?  Alternatively, is there a way to allow user
interaction in the 'while 1' loop?

Here's the code again...


from socket import *

PORT = 79 # the finger port
BUFSIZE = 1024

def main():
   s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
   s.bind('', PORT)
   s.listen(1)

   while 1:
      conn, (remotehost, remoteport) = s.accept()
      data = conn.recv(BUFSIZE)
      # do something with data
      conn.send("done")
      conn.close()
      del conn

main()

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