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Glossary of Data Communications Terms
Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.
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Term:
daemon
Definition:
a UNIX program that is invisible to users but provides
important system services. Daemons manage everything from
paging to networking t notification of incoming mail. BSD
UNIX has many different daemons: wihtout counting
precisely, there are something like two dozen. Daemons
normally spend most of their time 'sleeping' or waiting for
something to do, so that they do not account for a lot of
CPU load.
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