Yes, a while loop that does not terminate how I would write a daemon (in any language). Suggest having it touch a "heartbeat" file every cycle and/or write state data to this file for monitoring and if you are running it on Unix/Linux put it under daemontools (http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html) for better control including restart automation and logging.
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