"Allen Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I must say that I'm a bit surprised that the Python Std > library does not have a module for this.
To be honest I've never used a language that does have a special library for turning programs/processes into daemons. The tools are in the modules and its only a few lines of code. Most of the time you don't even need that since if you want a long running server you can just arrange to start it in the init files when the machine starts up. Also because Python is cross platform the rules for writing daemons are quite different on Windows/VMS/Unix etc So I'm guessing that nobody has gotten round to doing a cross platform daemonize function - although it probably isn't impossible! > Are all python scripts expected to be small user-mode utilities? Definitely not, but equally, I guess most Python programs are not daemons either. If somebody gets a good daemon module written and submitted I'm sure it would be considered for inclusion, it just looks like nobody has had to scratch that itch enough yet. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
