Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing

Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by jasoneckert on Sunday October 20, 2024 @08:27AM (#41894902)

The *nix world is full of dark-but-fun terminology. Daemons run the system. New files get 666 (before the umask takes away unnecessary permissions). Parents kill their children before killing themselves. And sometimes you have to kill zombies.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by vhodges on Sunday October 20, 2024 @09:36AM (#41895286)

From: https://devrant.com/rants/1101391/my-daily-unix-command-list...

unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by JKCalhoun on Sunday October 20, 2024 @09:43AM (#41895320)

yum

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by oefrha on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:02PM (#41896793)

Except you shouldn’t fsck while mounted.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by toast0 on Sunday October 20, 2024 @06:16PM (#41898944)

Works fine in FreeBSD/ufs :p

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by Uehreka on Sunday October 20, 2024 @01:39PM (#41897058)

> unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep.

T E C H N O L O G I C

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T E C H N O L O G I C

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by __MatrixMan__ on Sunday October 20, 2024 @05:01PM (#41898420)

This is a weird thread to happen upon when my other monitor has variables named sexp.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by prepend on Sunday October 20, 2024 @05:30PM (#41898639)

Tail/head

It’s almost like these commands were all made by nerd teenage boys.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by p_l on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:51AM (#41902408)

or rather nerd teenagers finding a way to joke on terms that didn't relate to sex until they thought of it and started spreading.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by danielheath on Sunday October 20, 2024 @10:57PM (#41900295)

Device is not ready

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by _fat_santa on Sunday October 20, 2024 @11:50AM (#41896139)

Almost feels like a right of passage when you inevitably google something like "kill self" (in reference to killing the current process) and get a popup telling you about suicide resources.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by ganjatech on Sunday October 20, 2024 @12:43PM (#41896621)

Or indeed a rite of passage

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by mort96 on Sunday October 20, 2024 @04:02PM (#41898083)

Or "kill orphaned children" and be put a list somewhere

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by jakjak123 on Sunday October 20, 2024 @04:11PM (#41898149)

"Kill orphaned child process"

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by gberger on Sunday October 20, 2024 @12:14PM (#41896342)

Sometimes you have to kill orphans too!

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by paulnpace on Sunday October 20, 2024 @04:29PM (#41898238)

Unics (from Multics).

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by __MatrixMan__ on Sunday October 20, 2024 @04:56PM (#41898387)

Zombies or orphans, depending on which side you want to play as today. Plenty of killing to be done on both.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by js2 on Sunday October 20, 2024 @05:32PM (#41898654)

Zombies can't be killed for they are already dead; they can only be reaped, by waiting on them. (This is why init inherits orphans, so it may reap them when they eventually die.)

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by arp242 on Sunday October 20, 2024 @08:40PM (#41899714)

From: https://www.unixprogram.com/churchofbsd/index.html

One day I was at a restaurant explaining process control to one of my disciples. I was mentioning how we have to kill the children (child processes) if they become unresponsive. Or we can even set an alarm for the children to kill themselves. That the parent need to wait (wait3) and acknowledge that the child has died or else it will become a zombie.

The look of horror the woman sitting across had was unforgettable. I tried to explain it was a computer software thing but it was too late, she fled terrified, probably to call the police or something. I didn't really want to stick around too long to find out.

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