On 8 Jan 2002 at 16:05, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Is there any facility in Linux to develop memory-resident prog- > > rams ? ( as in DOS ) > Sure. They are called "daemons" in linux.
And as far as my na�ve understanding goes, any program that can handle all possible input conditions can be turned into daemon by $ nohup progname >log 2>&1 log & Isn't it funny so many things daemons does today when daemon actually stands for 'Disks and execution monitor'. (Yes it has nothing to do with demon as in BSD mascot..) Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
