PEP idea - Daemon

[Ryan Morillo]

Adding in the UID and GID should be easy, I'm not sure what you meen by 
daemons forking.  If your saying that you loose the PID, thats not a 
problem (I intend to return the PID), if daemontools needs something else 
to happen (I can't imagine what), tell me what it is and I'll see what I 
can do.
(It may be that I don't understand all the things you would use a daemon 
for.  I just use it for long running background processes, on the rare 
occasion I even leave myself a way to send more info into them, mostly 
sound servers, and piping things around.)

On 24 May 2003 11:59:49 GMT, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at storm.ca._nospam> 
wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2003 03:54:13 -0500, Ryan Morillo <srart at operamail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Am I the only one that thinks we should add daemonization to the os 
>> module? After playing for a few days trying to figure it out, I was 
>> lucky enough to find Jurgen's (sorry, don't know unicode for umlatts on 
>> the "u") code for how to do it in *nix (cookbook recipie 6.7), I think 
>> I've stumbled across it in windows once (example in win32 stuff), but 
>> adding it to the stdlib seems like a good idea to me.
>
> I wouldn't mind, if it were flexible enough. For example, daemon's
> forking by default are a pain if you want to put the daemon under
> supervision via daemontools. Every daemon should have a 'nofork' option,
> like -f or something. That, and options for uid/gid to run under, etc.
>
> My 2cents.
>
> Mike
>



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