On 7/24/2013 6:25 PM, Guido van Rossum 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.
There's PEP 3143 and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon. I've used it often, with great success. -- Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com