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

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:53:36PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Based on what I can see in the Python Cookbook (e.g.
> <URL:http://code.activestate.com/recipes/551780/>), Windows doesn't
> even call it a ???daemon???, instead calling it a ???service???. The
> customisation options and expected behaviour are wildly different from
> what a Unix programmer would expect.

   Not only it's a completely different API - it requires pywin32 which is
not in the stdlib.

> So I think that a module for creating Unix-style daemons, with API and
> options geared toward making that easy, has no business also getting
> involved with creating Windows services. It would result in an unduly
> complicated API for no benefit to either Unix programmers or Windows
> programmers.

   +1 for unix-only daemonization, -1 for making a universal unix/w32 API.

Oleg.
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