On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 21:22:04 +0200 Florian Zieboll <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 18:54:12 +0100 > Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What's "a daemon"? > > > > (...) > > > > And no 'package' not specifically created for this use case could > > provide the meta-information needed here. > > > Hallo Rainer, > > this sounds much like a rhetoric question. Not really. Ask this question to 100 people, and you'll get a wide range of answers similar to the range you'd get with "what is the cloud?" or "what does semantic mean?" I've met people who say a background process is a daemon only if it *put itself* in the background. Others say it's a daemon only if managed by a respawning supervision suite like s6, runit or daemontools. Me, I try not to use the word for that reason. I'd be very careful of discussions that pivot around the definition of "daemon." SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
