[Python-ideas] Draft PEP: Standard daemon process library

[Jesse Noller]

On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> Jesse Noller <jnoller at ...> writes:
>> Windows Services != Unix daemons. Admittedly, I haven't had to do it
>> in awhile, but from what I remember, windows services are nowhere  
>> near
>> the same type of beast as a unix daemon, and trying to make a unified
>> daemon library that glosses over the differences might cause seizures
>> and habitual smoking.
>
> That would be like a portable library which would allow to write  
> multiprocess
> programs by glossing over the differences between Unix and Windows  
> processes...
> Wouldn't it?
>

Touché good sir, touché