24 Jul
2013
24 Jul
'13
11:12 p.m.
On 7/24/2013 6:25 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
To reduce the need for 3rd party subprocess creation code, we should have better daemon creation code in the stdlib -- I wrote some damn robust code for this purpose in my previous job, but it never saw the light of day.
What do you call "daemon"? An actual Unix-like daemon?
Yeah, a background process with parent PID 1 and not associated with any terminal group.
There's PEP 3143 and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon. I've used it often, with great success. -- Eric.