Re: [PEPr] Proposal for System::Daemon

Thank you for taking an interest Dmitri. On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Dmitri <email12@sharedlog.com> wrote: > Kevin van Zonneveld wrote: > > Kevin van Zonneveld (http://pear.php.net/user/kvz) proposes > System::Daemon. > > You can find more detailed information here: > > http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=553 > > > Isn't this proposal very similar to Net_Server > http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Server ? > > I mean you can already do logging fron Net_Server instance. I actually used > Net_Server once to write an email filter for Postfix > and it works well - it's up for almost six months now without a restart. I could be wrong but I believe Net_Server - requires you to open an port, not all daemons want to do that - and includes a lot of 'socket-oriented' code - gives you limited control over the 'daemonization' (sighandlers, etc) - provides limited OS integration (logging, generating startup files) These are all points that System_Daemon will focus on. There isn't a lot of shared code or logic between the two packages and this is mostly because the focus of System_Daemon lays on the daemon itself, and not specifically building network servers. It basically should allow you to build any kind of application on top of it's foundation. -- Kevin van Zonneveld Work | http://www.true.nl/ About | http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/