[asterisk-users] Asterisk AMI - Create a daemon (background process)

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:29:44AM -0500, Eric Wieling wrote:
> PHP has had memory leak issues in the past, though modern versions
> are apparently much better.
> 
> The thing is, when you write a daemon you must EXPECT it to exit at
> some point, maybe the socket went away or the system restarted or
> you are out of memory, whatever.  You need to make sure you handle
> these situations regardless of which language you write in.  Using
> inittab is one way, daemon-tools is another.

Some Linux distributions nowadays have upstart or systemd. That makes
writing an extra daemon simpler. Regardless of the language.

> For me, PHP with its C-like syntax, decent string handling, Perl
> Regex, and POSIX process control (including fork), it is "good enough"
> for most stuff that I do.  

Gah. Just write it in Perl. Or, if it's a glorified script, maybe it
just needs to be a shell script.

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