Bitcoin: OS-specific background service for bitcoind
This issue was triggered by discussion in #8813.
Apparently, MacOSX has deprecated daemon() a long time ago with the intent of moving to an OS-specific system for background services.
There's a similar case on Windows, where daemon() doesn't exist and never existed.
I'm not 100% sure that this is worth doing as on Windows and MacOSX actual users generally use the GUI, so won't bother with a headless bitcoind at all [for a long time we didn't even distribute a bitcoind binary for MacOSX]. But I suppose there could be a use case for bitcoind as a system background service even there and this would be the issue to refer to.
This could take the form of external scripts/wrappers, similar to that for Linux distributions in contrib/init.
laanwj
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I use a bitcoind daemon on macOS 10.13.3. Lightning might encourage more folks to do so. Apple generally releases a new version every autumn (Northern hemisphere), so probably a good idea to keep an eye on announcements so we can fix this just in time worst case.
Sjors
on 16 Mar 2018
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I use a bitcoind daemon on macOS 10.13.3. Lightning might encourage more folks to do so. Apple generally releases a new version every autumn (Northern hemisphere), so probably a good idea to keep an eye on announcements so we can fix this just in time worst case.