[Python-Dev] Inherance of file descriptor and handles on Windows (PEP 446) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Jul 25 00:35:15 CEST 2013

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:25:50 -0700 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> 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.

But is that relevant to the PEP? A daemon only uses fork(), not exec(). Or have I misunderstood your concern?

Regards

Antoine.

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