What if you want to write a service/daemon that is portable to both Windows and Linux with no code changes. If it compiles to the .NET Framework as a "Service" shouldn't it then work with no changes on Linux? Any of the platform-specific bits should be wrapped by the Framework implementation.
Joe -----Original Message----- From: Erik B�gfors [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 3:02 PM To: Joe Mozelesky Cc: Mono List Subject: RE: [Mono-list] Writing daemons in C# How do you define daemon? For me a daemon is just a piece of software that runs in the background and handles some kind of request! Normally in the unix-world you simply fork and keep running (after som setsid and stuff like that). So you can either pinvoke that stuff or simple start it in the background. I see no reason to do all the above if you want a unix-daemon. /Erik On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 20:23, Joe Mozelesky wrote: > >From my trusty Wrox Professional C# book, Chapter 24 is called �Windows > Services.� �In the .NET Framework, we can find service classes in the > System.ServiceProcess namespace that implement the three parts of a > service: > > � We inherit from the ServiceBase class to implement a service. > � The ServiceController class is used to implement a service control > program. > � The ServiceProcessInstaller and ServiceInstaller classes are, as the > names suggest, classes to install and configure the service programs.� > > A service on Windows is the equivalent of a daemon on Linux. Note that > this is different from COM+ services . > > So for instance if you wanted to write an FTP daemon that listens on a > port you might use System.ServiceProcess along with System.Net.Sockets. > > However, when I browse the Class Status on the Mono homepage, I do not > see the System.ServiceProcess namespace anywhere, so I don't know if the > maintainers have any plan to implement this in Mono or not. However > when I ran a search of the mailing list archives I came up with these > two links: > > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-March/001515.h > tml > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-patches/2002-June/004426.ht > ml > > Where System.ServiceProcess is referred to, so perhaps it is planned to > be implemented. > > So I would suppose that means that you won't be able to write daemons > with C# and Mono until sometime in the future when the namespace has > been implemented. -- Erik B�gfors | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Supporter of free software | GSM +46 733 279 273 fingerprint: 6666 A85B 95D3 D26B 296B 6C60 4F32 2C0B 693D 6E32 _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
