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Thu Jul 25 00:35:15 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-July/127549.html

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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