[Python-Dev] new module proposal: daemonize

[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:07, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> This (or something like it) looks like a useful addition.
> 
> I remember writing a much more elaborate version for Zope:
> 
> http://cvs.zope.org/Zope/lib/python/zdaemon/
> 
> (Ignore Daemon.py, which is the old Zope API for the same thing.)

I have something somewhat similar in mailman (although with lots of
extra goo):

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mailman/mailman/bin/mailmanctl?view=markup

Still, something like this would be a nice addition to the standard
library.  Save's having to read Stevens APitUE Ch. 13.  <wink>.

-Barry