[Python-ideas] Draft PEP (version 0.4): Standard daemon?process?library

[Aahz]

[responding very late]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+python at ...> writes:
>> 
>> What would be appropriate behaviour in the case of a stale PID file?
>> Abort the daemonisation attempt? Delete the stale lock file silently
>> and continue as though it didn't exist?
> 
> Delete the stale lock file silently and continue as though it didn't exist.
> (and, of course, create another one for the current process)

This should be determined by the API -- for example, a process running
against an NFS disk that may be run from any of several servers but
should only run on one server at any time ought to abort if there's a
stale PID file.
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