[Baypiggies] daemonize

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> 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.  ;-)
>
>  Hm. AFAIK the pyprocessing package is still in active development, and
>  I'd be reluctant to essentially "freeze" it by inclusion into the
>  stdlib.
>
>  The daemonize module IMO isn't all that related to pyprocessing; it's
>  a very specific Unix thing that only a small number of developers ever
>  need. (I know -- I wrote one for Zope that still lives on in some form
>  or another, but since then I've rarely had the need.) However, given
>  that daemonize contains lots of little tricks that are hard to get
>  right, it *might* qualify for inclusion, assuming it represents best
>  practices without going too far into featuritis. The Python Cookbook
>  tends to get both qualities right.

The one in the print version of The Python Cookbook follows W. Richard
Stevens pretty much exactly.  I wouldn't expect it to change.  What do
I do to "submit" it?

-jj

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