A deamon is a evil horned beast from down below! hahahaha
A dAemon is:
A daemon (pronounced DEE-muhn) is a program that runs continuously and
exists for the purpose of handling periodic service requests that a
computer system expects to receive. The daemon program forwards the
requests to other programs (or processes) as appropriate.
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note: this definition came from www.whatis.com
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It basically means that it is a program that is invoked (like the spirits)
and waits. Unlike a utility program, grep, vi, the daemon usually
detaches itself from the controling terminal and runs untill you
explicitley stop it (unless it crashes itself).
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Louis Dupree wrote:
> What is a deamon?
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> Louis
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