Re: Newer names

2003-09-02 Thread Vitali Malicky
Vitali Malicky wrote: OK, Hendrik! On monday I'll take A Student's Guide To UNIX(C) by Harley Hann which I began with 5 years ago, and I'll quote for you and for all dear All the whole paragraph where it's explained. Deal? Why not? :) But I was more interested what the single letters

Re: Newer names

2003-09-01 Thread David Landgren
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:13:20PM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: Vitali Malicky wrote: What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run other processes periodically under a user

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Le Samedi, 30 aoû 2003, à 10:52 Europe/Zurich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : It would be more fitting to address the storage units as media or storage media. Thus the title DAEMON could be reverted to SMAEMON or Storage Media And Executon MONitor. Why not SALMON? Tant que vous y êtes? More

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Vitali Malicky
Please read entire article before sending any comment to me. Read. Why would any one wish to change the term DAEMON, D.A.E.Mon., and Disk and execution monitor, to a more fitting title. In practice this term has grown outdated. For today it stands that many people in the world abroad

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Vitali Malicky wrote: What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And many my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it also as

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Vitali Malicky
Vitali Malicky wrote: What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And many my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Vitali Malicky wrote: OK, Hendrik! On monday I'll take A Student's Guide To UNIX(C) by Harley Hann which I began with 5 years ago, and I'll quote for you and for all dear All the whole paragraph where it's explained. Deal? Why not? :) But I was more interested what the single letters in dragon