Daemon
nounid
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A program which is often started at the time the system boots and runs continuously without intervention from any of the users on the system. The daemon program forwards the requests to other programs (or processes) as appropriate. The term daemon is a Unix term, though many other operating systems provide support for daemons, though they're sometimes called other names. Windows, for example, refers to daemons and System Agents and services.
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Entity Type
System85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Daemons
- possessive
- Daemon's
- pluralpossessive
- Daemons'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A program which is often started at the time the system boots and runs continuously without intervention from any of the users on the system. The daemon program forwards the requests to other programs (or processes) as appropriate. The term daemon is a Unix term, though many other operating systems provide support for daemons, though they're sometimes called other names. Windows, for example, refers to daemons and System Agents and services.
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