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

[Jerry Seutter]

It would be nice if this functionality could work on windows machine as well
as unix flavors.

I wrote the package at http://daemonize.sourceforge.net in frustration after
seeing daemons built poorly several times.  Some of the instances had been
done incorrectly even after the developer had been pointed to the
ActiveState page.  Understanding why a daemon should be written the way it
is requires a fair bit of historical knowledge that younger people
occasionally do not have.

Some of the recent grads hired at my workplace did not know what a daemon
was.  "Oh, like a web container?"

Jerry Seutter

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Ben Finney
<ben+python at benfinney.id.au<ben%2Bpython at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:

> Guido van Rossum writes:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > I am preparing a PEP, and corresponding reference implementation,
> > > for a standard implementation of the steps needed to turn a
> > > program into a well-behaved Unix daemon.
> >
> > I would like to note that there are many existing packages that
> > provide support for daemonization […]
>
> Good point, thanks (and thanks to others in this thread for drawing my
> attention to some more that I hadn't yet found).
>
> I will make note, in the next revision, of the existing equivalent
> Python works of which I'm aware, and how their implementation differs
> from the intent of this PEP. If anyone feels I'm missing any, I would
> be happy to be informed.
>
> > I have an inkling that this is one of those problems where the many
> > solutions that are hard to compare, because they have different APIs
> > or make different assumptions about the ultimate goals.
>
> This suspicion could well be true.
>
> On the other hand, there already seems to be a good amount of positive
> support for the PEP, so I'd like to attempt to come to a sensible API
> that covers most use cases.
>
> Is 'python-ideas' the right forum to hash this out? Or is now the
> right time to subject it to the inevitable by posting to
> 'comp.lang.python'?
>
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