Talk:Run as a daemon or service: Difference between revisions

: Current problems with the task:

: # It's difficult to say what constitutes a daemon. It should run in background in some sense, and preferrably do something useful; other than that anything goes. It may or may not hold on to a tty (getty vs sendmail); it may or may not be system wide (gnome launches a million per-user background processes upon user session start); it may or may not interact with direct user input (gpm, XIM daemon, etc). You need to narrow it down, or change the task to just focus on detaching from parent process.

: # Backgrounding a process has more to do with OS than programming language. On unix you may let init adopt the process, on Windows you need to have user login script to start the process or use regsvc or svchost. It's also not clear if any of the systray icons count as a daemon.

: # Redirecting stdio is useful to have the daemon not die unexpectly on hangup or something, but it's not a defining property. Also your requirement of redirecting is strange: the program is supposed to write to stdout; the program is not supposed to ''really'' write to stdout; the program is not supposed to worry about where the output goes; the program is not supposed to be invoked by shell redirection, so it must know where the output goes. Make up your mind, maybe? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 00:10, 18 November 2011 (UTC)