daemon
Sign in to saveAlso known as Daemon (computer software), demon, computer daemon, computer demon, background service, service, daemon process, daemon software
computer program that runs persistently as a background process to provide a service
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Within Vinony's link graph, daemon is referenced by 494 other articles, and connects out to standard streams, daemon and fork.
It sits within the topics Process (computing) and Servers (computing).
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software feature
- Subclass of
- background process
- Named after
- Maxwell's demon
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- facet of
- operating system
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Encyclopedic overview
Components of some Linux desktop environments that are daemons include D-Bus, NetworkManager (here called unetwork), PulseAudio (usound), and Avahi.
In computing, a daemon is a program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Customary convention is to name a daemon process with the letter d as a suffix to indicate that it's a daemon. For example, syslogd is a daemon that implements system logging facility, and sshd is a daemon that serves incoming SSH connections.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “daemon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.