[Mono-list] POLL: How to write Mono Services (was Writing deamons in C#)

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> 1)
> High Integration with SysV daemon structure: each mono service is a
> different SysV daemon.
> See Mathias previous post for an analysis of this option.
> 2)
> A unique SysV process which will be the MONO.SCM: each mono service will be
> managed by these process.
> See Mathias and Kai previous posts for an analysis of this option.

Remember that Mono is not tied to Linux, so using a solution which is
cross-platform would be my recommended approach.

So basically that means, rolling our own system to launch/shutdown
processes.  This has the added benefit, that a single daemon can be
started, and we can have as much tight integration with this as we want.

We can always have a `monoservices' init.d script for the SysV to
launch, and this one in turn would load the definitions for Mono
services from a Mono-controlled directory, but that way we minimize the
integration work, and maximize flexibility.

Love,
Miguel