Andrew McNabb <amcnabb@mcnabbs.org> writes:
In my opinion, the difference between a daemon and a service is just a by-product of the difference between fork and CreateProcess.
This PEP addresses the case where a daemon is specifically what the programmer wants. I would like it to *also* be useful as the obvious thing to use for implementing a service on Unix, but it is designed to also allow for the case when a service is *not* what the programmer wants.
If the multiprocessing package can solve this problem, I don't see why a daemon/service package wouldn't be able to, too.
A service package would be ideal for the use case you suggest. That's not what this PEP proposes, though. -- \ “Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.” —Groucho Marx | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney