[fpc-pascal] respawn a daemon in Linux

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Michael Schnell wrote:

> On 01/14/2014 11:35 AM, Tony Whyman wrote:
>> Michael,
>> 
>> This should be a classic Unix program with two separate parent and child
>> processes, where the child process runs your program and the parent is
>> responsible for monitoring the child and respawning it when it stops.
>> The basic algorithm of the parent is:
>> ....
>
> This really  sounds like the decent way to do this !
>
> In fact at best someone (me) should modify the demonapp.pp unit in the fpc 
> library to allow for this kind of re-spawning.
>
> Would the fpc team accept such a patch ?

No.

There are a lot of other factors involved, which you cannot control in 
such a general-purpose component.

I had thought about introducing this when doing the implementation, 
but decided against it.

Michael.