Run CI as a Daemon

[eluser]Ben Hirsch[/eluser]
Curious if anyone has had experience with running instances of CI as a Daemon?

This article explains methods on doing it with simple php scripts: https://github.com/kvz/system_daemon. It references this class to help with forking the process: https://github.com/kvz/system_daemon

However, I am wondering how this can be incorporated into CI. I need to create a set of continually running 'workers' to process time consuming tasks.