This is me playing around in C.
No reason.
For fun and for a change of pace from my usual day to day work.
Really though, the more pertinent question you should be asking is:
- Let's Write a Linux Daemon
- Understanding Dynamo with Andy Gross
- Graphite - Enterprise Scalable Realtime Graphing
- command line argument parsing
- config file loading
- logging
- daemonizing
- unit tests
- listens for UDP traffic
- reads to and writes to files
- make it useful
- make it robust
- make some web graphing frontends
./build.py
For building: fabricate
Ini file loading: inih
Unit tests: check