Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> writes: > […] there's plenty of occasions when I want to start a daemon, as > me, for my own personal purposes. It doesn't do any uid/gid juggling > or privilege dropping, but it's a perfectly reasonable thing to want > to use your daemon module to do everything else (detach, pid locks, > etc). > > Conbine that with "my home dir is NFS shared across our LAN" and > you're instantly into routine lockfile-on-NFS land.
Yes, that's a simple use case that I do want to support. Thanks, I'll see how best to accommodate it. -- \ “People come up to me and say, ‘Emo, do people really come up | `\ to you?’” —Emo Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list