[Python-Dev] Daemon creation code in the standard library (original) (raw)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jul 26 09:11:35 CEST 2013


Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:

Therefore I'd be -1 on [PEP 3143] until those issues are alleviated.

Cameron Simpson <cs at 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 to set default security policy for initial file permissions.

Prone to rant on this at length if required...

Thanks folks. We'd love to have this discussion over at the ‘python-daemon-devel’ discussion forum if you want to have it in more detail.

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