[Python-Dev] Inherance of file descriptor and handles on Windows (PEP 446)

[Eric V. Smith]

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.