Why not use Ruby?  Specifically the Daemons gem for Ruby.

Michael

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Keith Rarick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our shell-script-based automated tests have served us well, but I get
> more and more trouble from different versions of netcat. Also, it's
> harder than it ought to be to produce reliable shell code. I want to
> change to a tool that's more solid. It doesn't have to be any more
> complicated than what we've got, but it should:
>
>  - use a more principled language than shell, such as maybe python
>  - not depend on external tools like netcat
>  - reliably detect a closed socket, and not have to time out
>
> In the past I've searched around a bit for a tool like this but didn't
> find much that was interesting. Right now I'm leaning toward something
> like http://github.com/kr/cubby/blob/master/check.py, along with a
> handful of suitable helper functions to start and stop beanstalkd and
> talk to it. However, I'd love to know if there's already a great,
> simple tool out there that can fill this role.
>
> Is there one?
>
> I also think it would be interesting to have something that works like
> python's doctest module, but for network conversations rather than
> python interpreter conversations. Some day I might make such a tool if
> it doesn't already exist.
>
> On an unrelated note, how do you all feel about C99?
>
> kr
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