[boost] [process] daemon ideas

Subject: [boost] [process] daemon ideas
From: Dracon Pern (draconpern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-11-18 02:08:04

I am not sure if [process] is the right library, but I am thinking about building something to manage daemon install/uninstall across platforms, for example Windows's service, OS X's launchd, systemd, and SysV init.  Every operating system offers some way to launch a daemon at boot, and also the ability to stop, recover, etc.  The issue is they all do it slightly differently, unlike having a common main().  My thinking is to provide a thin layer for install/remove and service notification.  I have looked at Boost.Application, but it's lacking install/uninstall, and also seems overly complicated.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

-Eric