On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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?
Actually it's common for "daemonization" libraries to run an arbitrary executable as a daemon, and then it would be relevant. E.g. zdaemon (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zdaemon) does this. (Disclosure: I wrote the first version of zdaemon when I worked for Zope Corp over a decade ago. :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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