#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""

This script is used to kick off a salt minion daemon

"""

from multiprocessing import freeze_support

import salt.utils.platform

from salt.scripts import salt_minion

if __name__ == "__main__":

if salt.utils.platform.is_windows():

# Since this file does not have a '.py' extension, when running on

# Windows, spawning any addional processes will fail due to Python

# not being able to load this 'module' in the new process.

# Work around this by creating a '.pyc' file which will enable the

# spawned process to load this 'module' and proceed.

import os.path

import py_compile

cfile = os.path.splitext(__file__)[0] + ".pyc"

if not os.path.exists(cfile):

py_compile.compile(__file__, cfile)

# This handles the bootstrapping code that is included with frozen

# scripts. It is a no-op on unfrozen code.

freeze_support()

salt_minion()