On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Bojan Rajkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm attempting to write a simple daemon in mono that should >> background >> itself after starting correctly. Essentially, it should fork() and >> then the parent should exit(0) while the child process continues. > > I believe you can use mono-service and the usual Windows service stuff in the > ServiceProcess assembly. Check > http://www.go-mono.com/docs/index.aspx?link=man%3Amono-service(1) > for more info, and hopefully someone will be able to give more detail than > I have.
Well, yes, I've used mono-service a bit, but it seems a bit heavyweight and weird, mostly because Windows's service API is heavyweight and weird. Sometimes you just want to fork. What I'm trying to do here specifically is to start a program, have it open its listening socket, then fork into the background so the parent process can launch *another* process with the certainty that the listening socket is already open. Then I want to be able to kill the process (and all its potential children) safely afterwards. Basically it's for a unit test, so multiple users might be starting/stopping these processes on the same machine simultaneously. It doesn't seem like the heavyweight MS service API is really cut out for this kind of work. Thanks for the link, though. I suppose mono-service is usually the "right" way to fork into the background. Have fun, Avery _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
