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YapDi - Yet another python Daemon implementation

• jemfinch 15y ago
  Daemonization is really something that ought to be done outside the process being daemonized, a la supervisord or (if you prefer Python) something like my own project, finitd[0]. Unless you have something you must do as root before dropping privileges, leave daemonization to a separate, purpose-built program like these. It's the UNIX way. [0] https://github.com/jemfinch/finitd https://github.com/jemfinch/finitd
  • janzer 15y ago
    I don't really understand how it would matter to a user, but you do know supervisord is written in python as well right?
    • jemfinch 15y ago
      Ah, no. I was actually thinking of DJB's daemontools, but had supervisord on the mind because it was mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
• encoderer 15y ago
  Having written a specialized daemon library for PHP, my take is that this seems clean, but unless you need special functionality, I really prefer a while(true) and supervisord. In my case (https://github.com/shaneharter/PHP-Daemon https://github.com/shaneharter/PHP-Daemon) a project needed a way to run code on a timer every second. For more basic cases supervisord or similar is the way I'd go. And no, I wouldn't suggest that anybody write daemons in PHP. It's one of those things that was the best of several bad options. Python is a bit better, but if I had my choice it would be in a language that had real threading.
• lucian1900 15y ago
  Interesting, potentially useful. It seems a little sad to me that Twisted is so unappreciated; it solved many current problems a long time ago, including very good deamonizing.