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

[Ben Finney]

Andrew Bennetts writes:

> Bill Janssen wrote:
> > If this module supported both Unix and Windows, though, that would
> > be interesting.
> 
> That would be lovely, but even a Unix-only module would be
> worthwhile, IMO.

Jerry Seutter writes:

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


My knowledge of programming on Windows is quite limited. AIUI, the
steps required to make a Windows program into a daemon process are
markedly different from the canonical Stevens procedure, correct?

In that case, how would an implementation on Windows need to change
the API given in this PEP?

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Ben Finney