Talk:Daemon (computer software): Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Howard C. Berkowitz No edit summary |
imported>David MacQuigg |
||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
==Controlled by another program?== | ==Controlled by another program?== | ||
The original UNIX definition was that a daemon had no associated tty, but I'd hesitate to say that it isn't controlled by another program -- to me, the program that spawns it exerts control. It should be sufficient to say it has no user. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 20:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC) | The original UNIX definition was that a daemon had no associated tty, but I'd hesitate to say that it isn't controlled by another program -- to me, the program that spawns it exerts control. It should be sufficient to say it has no user. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 20:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC) | ||
: Good point. I was thinking of daemons that respond only to events, but of course programs can generate those events also. A daemon is controlled by its parent, even if that control is only to terminate the daemon. | |||
:Webopedia uses the concept of "background process" http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/daemon.html, meaning "not controlled by the user". I'll delete "or another program". | |||
:--[[User:David MacQuigg|David MacQuigg]] 20:38, 1 October 2009 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 14:39, 1 October 2009
Controlled by another program?
The original UNIX definition was that a daemon had no associated tty, but I'd hesitate to say that it isn't controlled by another program -- to me, the program that spawns it exerts control. It should be sufficient to say it has no user. Howard C. Berkowitz 20:11, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
- Good point. I was thinking of daemons that respond only to events, but of course programs can generate those events also. A daemon is controlled by its parent, even if that control is only to terminate the daemon.
- Webopedia uses the concept of "background process" http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/daemon.html, meaning "not controlled by the user". I'll delete "or another program".
- --David MacQuigg 20:38, 1 October 2009 (UTC)