daemon
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈdiːmən/
- Specialized
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demonio
- It's sad that we need a daemon to do this; it should be built-in.
- update daemon
Examples
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If users do not trust the daemon to keep their queries private, they can enforce the privacy of their queries as follows.
Academic text (2011) -
Each participating system runs a Rendezvous daemon that sends and receives messages on the network.
Blog text (5) -
When your daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously.
Academic text (2011) -
Computers, especially servers, have programs that run continuously in the background; these are known as daemons.
Academic text (1997) -
Background services known as daemons that handle things like task scheduling, sound and printing.
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Reliance on a daemon means that all Rendezvous-enabled applications can share access to the P&S bus.
Blog text (5) -
Our CCN forwarder, ccnd, is implemented in C as a userspace daemon.
Academic text (2012) -
Rendezvous routing daemons can route messages to subscribers on remote LANs.
Blog text (5) -
The Rendezvous routing daemon, rvrd, forwards messages subscribed to by other routing daemons on behalf of systems on other networks.
Blog text (5) -
A web server uses a daemon to handle requests from users without requiring their direct input.
Synonyms
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4.5
Part of a computer program that does tasks in the background
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6.3
A program part that waits for events like new connections and responds
A background program that cleans temporary files and frees memory to keep a computer running well
How Automatic
- Specialized
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7.6
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3.6
Surface Forms
Etymology
Daemon was borrowed by computer people to mean a small program that works quietly in the background, like a helpful 'spirit' doing jobs for you. So a computer daemon runs on its own to keep things working without you watching.