[Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library

[Ben Finney]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:

> Therefore I'd be -1 on [PEP 3143] until those issues are alleviated.

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> writes:

> I have always found the convention that daemons have a umask of 0
> to be utterly bogus, because almost all library code relies on the
> umask to set default security policy for initial file permissions.
>
> Prone to rant on this at length if required...


Thanks folks. We'd love to have this discussion over at the
‘python-daemon-devel’ discussion forum if you want to have it in more
detail.

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Ben Finney