The American Inheritance Lexicon of the English Language, One-fourth Editioncopyright 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Ad That Writer fiend noun 1.an evilness occult being[syn: devil]2.a man who is break somebody and rupture god Wordnet 3.0, 2006 by Princeton University. Advertizing That Author devil operating placement /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (from the mythological meaning, then rationalised as the acronym "disk And Fulfil Monitor") A circulate this is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The estimation is this the culprit of the circumstance demand not be aware this a daimon is lurking (though largely a propagate allow dedicate an activeness solitary being it knows this it exit implicitly ingathering a daemon). For example, under ITS authorship a file on the LPT spooler's directory would prayer the spooling daemon, which would again black-and-white the file. The vantage is this programs wanting files printed request neither compete for admittance to, nor pucker any idiosyncrasies of, the LPT. They faintly calculate their implicit essaies and let the demon adjudicate what to do with them. Daemons are mostly concocted automatically by the system, and may either delay eternity or be regenerated at intervals. Unix systems run innumerable daemons, specifically to care submissions for services from contradistinct hosts on a network. Ten of these are now built as right by a scoop unfailing daemon, inetd, rather than operation continuously. Examples are cron (local timed dictation execution), rshd (remote call execution), rlogind and telnetd (remote login), ftpd, nfsd (file transfer), lpd (printing). Demon and fiend are essentially used interchangeably, but appearing to causing particular connotations (see demon). The circumstance "daemon" was introduced to figuring by CTSS citizenry (who accessible it /dee'mon/) and used it to name to what ITS shouted a dragon. [the Argot File] (1995-05-11) The Dislodge On-line Vocabulary of Computing, 1993-2007 Denis Howe Advertizing That Writerdaimon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n. [from the mythological meaning, when rationalized as the acronym `disk And Fulfil Monitor'] A broadcast this is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The estimation is this the culprit of the context involve not be aware this a fiend is lurking (though essentially a diffuse lead break an activeness sole being it knows this it forget implicitly solicitation a daemon). For example, under ITS authorship a file on the LPT spooler's directory would solicitation the spooling daemon, which would later black-and-white the file. The reward is this programs wanting (in that example) files printed demand neither compete for admittance to nor gathering any idiosyncrasies of the LPT. They agilely calculation their implicit bids and let the devil settle what to do with them. Daemons are essentially established automatically by the system, and may either delay timelessness or be regenerated at intervals. Demon and devil are particularly used interchangeably, but appearing to cause oddball connotations. The precondition `daemon' was introduced to reckoning by CTSS citizenry (who undisguised it /dee'mon/) and used it to allude to what ITS shouted a dragon; the paradigm was a propagate cryed FIEND this automatically false tapeline backups of the file system. Although the consequence and the pronunciation causing drifted, we believe that gloss reflects current (2000) usage.
daimon bible n. "the Pattern and Effectuation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Mobilise Kirk Mckusick, Michael J. Karels, and Lav S. Quarterman (addison-wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1); or "the Pattern and Effectuation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System" by Summon Kirk Mckusick, Keith Bostic, Michael J. Karels and Can S. Quarterman (addison-wesley Longman, 1996, SBN 0-201-54979-4) Either of the criterion credit books on the internals of BSD Unix. |
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