PEP 3143 and customizations

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/21/2014 02:45 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:34:45PM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> The second thing you want is for continued set up to happen in Child after
>> Child is spawned... oh, wait -- I think I understand -- you want Parent to
>> hang around and wait for the result of the continued set up in Child, so it
>> can report any errors encountered... have I understood?
>
> Yeah, if there was no need to do setup in the child, the whole problem
> would go away. Just setup first and then daemonize. Unfortunately some
> things must be set up in the child, but with the current implementation
> the child can no longer signal any failures back to the user. All it can
> do is fail silently. Bad.

I feel your pain!  :)  I just had the same experience with PID files, which likewise must be done in the child but 
failures don't make it back to the parent (because the parent is gone).

Ben, how amenable are you to API change?

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~Ethan~