Daemon¿

"I know very well who Satan is: He is freedom. He is the uncontrolled, the incalculable, the antithesis of order and discipline, the antithesis of the legalism of outer space.... We know where a planet will be in twelve years, four months and nine days. But we don''t know where a butterfly will have flown one minute hence. Therefore the butterfly is of Satan."

-- Jens Bjørneboe

To understand Daemons, you must understand the evil butterfly.

Okay.... could someone actually tell me what a Daemon is, I do know what a Demon is so don''t worry

Wow. Oh my god. We sold our souls to the devil O_O Butterfly.net uses Daemon servers O_O

.runscreamingintoawall

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This is the polish virus. It is not an executable, but if you would kindly format your entire harddrive, we would be happy.

ffs could someone just give me a dictionary definition, is it REALLY that hard :@

A program or process that sits idly in the background until it is invoked to perform its task


Found that on www.dictionary.com, lousy site but at least it had something.

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Original post by RedSweater
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Aren''t you supposed to be finding a tampon?

Often a thread that sits in the background to support other threads in multithreading

BTW, how to you pronouce "daemon"? Is it "dee-mon" or "day-mon" or what?

[edited by - hitchhiker90 on March 11, 2003 7:10:22 AM]

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Original post by RamboBones
Can anyone tell me what a Daemon is. I know it''s some internet computer term but I''m not sure what.

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A deamon, isn''t related to the internet, it''s related to Linux/Unix like systems. They are similar to what Windows call servers. In some way. They''re processes that work in the background, "xinetd" is a linux meta-daemon that calls other deamons on demand. Do a search for daemon in your favorite search engine to find out more.

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[Cyberdrek | the last true sorcerer | Spirit Mage - mutedfaith.com][ Administrator TheLinuxForum.tk]

Legions of deamons waiting...

The thing about real demons is that they often repeat themselves. A bit like their s/w counterparts >|

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from The Jargon Lexicon (4.3.3)

daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n.

[from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon). For example, under ITS, writing a file on the LPT spooler's directory would invoke the spooling daemon, which would then print the file. The advantage is that programs wanting (in this example) files printed need neither compete for access to nor understand any idiosyncrasies of the LPT. They simply enter their implicit requests and let the daemon decide what to do with them. Daemons are usually spawned automatically by the system, and may either live forever or be regenerated at intervals.

Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations. The term daemon' was introduced to computing by CTSS people (who pronounced it /dee'mon/) and used it to refer to what ITS called a dragon; the prototype was a program called DAEMON that automatically made tape backups of the file system. Although the meaning and the pronunciation have drifted, we think this glossary reflects current (2000) usage.

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[edited by - microdot on March 11, 2003 9:50:27 AM]