Jon Monteleone wrote: > What I dont understand about daemonizing a python script is whether or not it > requires the > daemon creation, ie the signal handling and forking of the process, to be > part of the > daemon code or is this code in a separate program that acts like a wrapper to > turn a > python program into a daemon. The latter is how linux documentation > describes turning a > program into a daemon. > > I guess I am wondering about the difference between using python to daemonize > a program vs > using a bash script to daemonize a program.
There is no difference in that. Daemonizing means detaching a process from the invoking process and making it a child to init, together with some other stuff. That's your first case and that's what daemonizing is about. Now if the process then "transforms" itself to another one - like with os.execvpe - that has nothing to say. And it's the way the bash-thingy works, using some daemonize-command that exactly does that. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
