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 aiming for inclusion in the standard library. > > At first glance the library appears to close all open files, with an option > to exclude some specific file descriptors (that is, you need to pass a list > of files that shouldn't be closed).
Indeed, it's annoying when you want to setup logging before daemonization starts. I had to hack my way through logging handlers to find the fd I had to keep open. > That makes it a lot harder to do some initialization before daemonizing. > I prefer to perform at least some initialization early in program startup to > be able to give sensible error messages. I've had too many initscripts that > claimed to have started a daemon sucessfully, only to have that daemon stop > right away because it noticed a problem right after it detached itself. Agreed. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
