2009-09-26  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    * Make a separate collection of DaemonRunner test scenarios.
    * Handle a start request with a timeout on the PID file lock acquire.

2009-09-24  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    * Implement ‘TimeoutPIDLockFile’ to specify a timeout in advance of
      lock acquisition.
    * Use lock with timeout for ‘DaemonRunner’.

2009-09-24  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.5 released.

    * Make a separate collection of PIDLockFile test scenarios.

2009-09-23  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    * Raise specific errors on ‘DaemonRunner’ failures.
    * Distinguish different conditions on reading and parsing PID file.
    * Refactor code to ‘_terminate_daemon_process’ method.
    * Improve explanations in comments and docstrings.
    * Don't set pidfile at all if no path specified to constructor.
    * Write the PID file using correct OS locking and permissions.
    * Close the PID file after writing.
    * Implement ‘PIDLockFile’ as subclass of ‘lockfile.LinkFileLock’.
    * Remove redundant checks for file existence.

2009-09-18  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    * Manage the excluded file descriptors as a set (not a list).
    * Only inspect the file descriptor of streams if they actually have
      one (via a ‘fileno’ method) when determining which file descriptors
      to close. Thanks to Ask Solem for revealing this bug.

2009-09-17  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.8 released.

    * Remove child-exit signal (‘SIGCLD’, ‘SIGCHLD’) from default signal
      map. Thanks to Joel Martin for pinpointing this issue.
    * Document requirement for ensuring any operating-system specific
      signal handlers are considered.
    * Refactor ‘fork_then_exit_parent’ functionality to avoid duplicate
      code.
    * Remove redundant imports.
    * Remove unused code from unit test suite scaffold.
    * Add specific license terms for unit test suite scaffold.

2009-09-03  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.7 released.

2009-09-02  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    * Fix keywords argument for distribution setup.
    * Exclude ‘test’ package from distribution installation.

2009-06-21  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.6 released.

    * Update documentation for changes from latest PEP 3143 revision.
    * Implement DaemonContext.is_open method.

2009-05-17  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.5 released.

    * Register DaemonContext.close method for atexit processing.
    * Move PID file cleanup to close method.
    * Improve docstrings by reference to, and copy from, PEP 3143.
    * Use mock checking capabilities of newer ‘MiniMock’ library.
    * Automate building a versioned distribution tarball.
    * Include developer documentation files in source distribution.

2009-03-26  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.4 released.

    * Conform to current PEP version, now released as PEP 3143 “Standard
      daemon process library”.
    * Ensure UID and GID are set in correct order.
    * Delay closing all open files until just before re-binding standard
      streams.
    * Redirect standard streams to null device by default.

2009-03-19  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.3 released.

    * Close the PID file context on exit.

2009-03-18  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.2 released.

    * Context manager methods for DaemonContext.

2009-03-18  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4.1 released.

    * Improvements to docstrings.
    * Further conformance with draft PEP.

2009-03-17  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.4 released.

    * Implement the interface from a draft PEP for process daemonisation.
    * Complete statement coverage from unit test suite.

2009-03-12  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.3 released.

    * Separate controller (now ‘DaemonRunner’) from daemon process
      context (now ‘DaemonContext’).
    * Fix many corner cases and bugs.
    * Huge increase in unit test suite.

2009-01-27  Ben Finney  <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>

    Version 1.2 released.

    * Initial release of this project forked from ‘bda.daemon’. Thanks,
      Robert Niederreiter.
    * Refactor some functionality out to helper functions.
    * Begin unit test suite.


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