Simplifying Perl daemons
By Michael Conrad (nerdvana) from Cincinnati.pm
Lightning talk
Target audience: Beginner
Language: English
Tags: daemon process runit supervision
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The traditional approach to writing a daemon involves forking twice, closing input/output handles, chdir(), writing a pid file, becoming session leader, using syslog, and a lot of other nonsense.
In a mere 5 minutes I will show how you can remove all that from your script, and gain overall reliability by using a simple process-supervisor tool like Runit.
