Running python as a deamon (rfork)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Radovan Garabik <garabik at melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk.invalid> wrote:
> any chance of doing this portably? (i.e. I'd like to run daemon under unix
> and windows)

to run something in the background, you
can do:

    os.spawnv(os.P_NOWAIT, program, (program,) + args)

making a real NT service is a bit more work. check
the newsgroup archives for details (I'm pretty sure
you need the win32 extensions for this...  if you al-
ready have them, check the demo library).

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