Advance Status Support

[chekolyn]

Currently it's very hard to get visibility into what the Forked Process is doing.
The only status available is from the service looking at the PID file via the is_running() function.

Imagine you need a service that has multiple threads, I want to expose how many threads are running by issuing the status call to main service status.
Or that I want to expose 1min, 5min, 60min counter values for the service itself.

Is there currently a way to do this? Am I missing something?

If not, is there a way to make the service listen on a socket for status reporting purposes.
Something like this: https://searchcode.com/codesearch/view/574564/

[torfsen]

There is no built-in functionality for communication with the daemon, so you need to implement that yourself. Sockets are a typical approach, but you can also use named pipes or other methods of interprocess communication (IPC).