Re: [Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library

2013-07-26 Thread Ben Finney
Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net writes: Therefore I'd be -1 on [PEP 3143] until those issues are alleviated. Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au writes: I have always found the convention that daemons have a umask of 0 to be utterly bogus, because almost all library code relies on the umask

Re: [Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library

2013-07-26 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 25 Jul, 2013, at 4:18, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Work continues on the PEP 3143-compatible ‘python-daemon’, porting it to Python 3 and aiming for inclusion in the standard library. At first glance the library appears to

Re: [Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library

2013-07-26 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:38:10 +0200 Ronald Oussoren ronaldousso...@mac.com wrote: On 25 Jul, 2013, at 4:18, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Work continues on the PEP 3143-compatible ‘python-daemon’, porting it to Python 3 and

Re: [Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library (was: Inherance of file descriptor and handles on Windows (PEP 446))

2013-07-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:08:18 +1000, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au a écrit : Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org writes: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library (was: Inherance of file descriptor and handles on Windows (PEP 446))

2013-07-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 25Jul2013 17:26, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: | Le Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:08:18 +1000, | Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au a écrit : | Work continues on the PEP 3143-compatible ‘python-daemon’, porting it | to Python 3 and aiming for inclusion in the standard library. | | The

[Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library (was: Inherance of file descriptor and handles on Windows (PEP 446))

2013-07-24 Thread Ben Finney
Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org writes: 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. Work continues on the PEP

Re: [Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library

2013-07-24 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Work continues on the PEP 3143-compatible ‘python-daemon’, porting it to Python 3 and aiming for inclusion in the standard library. At PyPI URL:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/, and development co-ordinated at Alioth