[MacPerl] Unix daemons in Perl on MacOS?

[Brian McNett <webmaster@mycoinfo.com>]

Jonathan Eisenzopf ends his regular "Mother of Perl" column:

http://webreference.com/perl/tutorial/9/

which is on the subject of writing Unix daemon processes in Perl,

with a the following plaint:

> Maybe someone who has a Mac will send me a version that will run on MacOS.

Okay, I'm admittedly sckeptical that there even *is* such a beast.  
However, there's the possiblity of a copy of "Mastering Algorithms in 
Perl" (which I really need and really can't afford), to spur me on.

So...  To tackle this, the closest I can come conceptually is a "faceless 
background app".

Jon's example is a simple daemon that prints "hello" to the console every 
five seconds or so. Since there's no console on the Mac (outside of just 
sending the output to STDOUT in MacPerl), and we WANT the application to 
remain hidden when it's not doing it's thing, I suspect MacPerl::Answer 
to be a fair workaround.

Aside from that, the application has to hand back control to other 
running apps when it's not active (sound's like a Mac Toolbox job to me).

I've no code yet, but I'm hoping to get some sort of discussion going 
here to give me ideas of where to go with this.

--B

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