On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:25:50 -0700 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> To reduce the need for 3rd party subprocess creation code, we should > >> have better daemon creation code in the stdlib -- I wrote some damn > >> robust code for this purpose in my previous job, but it never saw the > >> light of day. > > > > What do you call "daemon"? An actual Unix-like daemon? > > Yeah, a background process with parent PID 1 and not associated with > any terminal group.
But is that relevant to the PEP? A daemon only uses fork(), not exec(). Or have I misunderstood your concern? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
