On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:42:44PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
rather specific Unix-native concept: the "pidfile", a combination sentinel, lockfile, and primitive text interface.
IWBN to have a main() function in the module to be used from the command line: $ python -m daemon --pidfile=/var/run/mydaemon.pid status Daemon pid 1221 is running $ python -m daemon --pidfile=/var/run/mydaemon.pid stop $ python -m daemon --pidfile=/var/run/mydaemon.pid status Cannot find /var/run/mydaemon.pid A note on implementation detail: IWBN if the pidfile is removed on stop(). Please do not put the burden unto the user.
I might return the terminology in the PEP back to "pidfile" to be clear.
+1 Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.