sevlyar/go-daemon
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A library for writing system daemons in golang. observed · 2026-09-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 85
- Release rhythm 54
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-22. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4847
- days_rel: 94
- days_push: 94
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
2309 stars · 255 forks observed · 2026-09-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Go library for writing system daemons on UNIX-based operating systems. It provides goroutine-safe daemonization, pid-file management, and system signal handling by re-executing the process with a marker environment variable instead of using fork.
Use cases
- turn a Go program into a background daemon
- manage pid files for a long-running service
- handle system signals in a daemonized Go process
- run a background worker on Linux or macOS
- control and release a daemon process safely
When to choose
- you need to daemonize a Go application on Linux or macOS
- you want built-in pid-file handling and signal management
- you need goroutine-safe daemonization without fork
When to avoid
- you need Windows daemon support
- you need a full service manager rather than a daemonization library
- you require guaranteed backward compatibility before a v1.0 release
Facets
library · maturity stable
developer-tools concurrency file-system developer-tools operating-systems backend go cli daemonization pidfile unix system-daemon signal-handling linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/sevlyar/go-daemon · fetched 2026-09-28 · 84e10b05b398
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sevlyar/go-daemon | main | 77 |
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