This library implements the well-behaved daemon specification of pep 3143, "Standard daemon process library".
A well-behaved Unix daemon process is tricky to get right, but the required steps are much the same for every daemon program.
A DaemonContext instance holds the behaviour and configured process environment for the program; use the instance as a context manager to enter a daemon state.
Simple example of usage::
import daemon
from spam import do_main_program
with daemon.DaemonContext():
do_main_program()Customisation of the steps to become a daemon is available by setting options on the DaemonContext instance; see the documentation for that class for each option.
- Python 2.7+
- Python 3.3+
$ python setup.py test