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

[Antoine Pitrou]

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)