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* [TUHS] Initial uses of the '-d' convention for daemons?
@ 2023-02-04  4:10 Alexis
  2023-02-04  5:02 ` [TUHS] " Jonathan Gray
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alexis @ 2023-02-04  4:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs


Hi all,

Firstly, thanks to Warren for adding me to the list!

The 6th Edition manual refers to 'cron', not 'crond' (even though 
cron was indeed referred to as a 'daemon'). By 4.2BSD, however, we 
have things like 'telnetd' and 'tftpd'.

Does anyone have any pointers as to when and where the '-d' 
convention started to be used?

Thanks in anticipation,


Alexis.

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* [TUHS] Re: Initial uses of the '-d' convention for daemons?
  2023-02-04  4:10 [TUHS] Initial uses of the '-d' convention for daemons? Alexis
@ 2023-02-04  5:02 ` Jonathan Gray
  2023-02-04  5:51   ` Alexis
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jonathan Gray @ 2023-02-04  5:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexis; +Cc: tuhs

On Sat, Feb 04, 2023 at 03:10:26PM +1100, Alexis wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Firstly, thanks to Warren for adding me to the list!
> 
> The 6th Edition manual refers to 'cron', not 'crond' (even though cron was
> indeed referred to as a 'daemon'). By 4.2BSD, however, we have things like
> 'telnetd' and 'tftpd'.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers as to when and where the '-d' convention
> started to be used?

The 2nd edition manual has:
dpd(I) spawn data-phone daemon

by the 5th edition, there was also:
lpd(VIII) line printer daemon

The term dates back to CTSS and Multics.

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* [TUHS] Re: Initial uses of the '-d' convention for daemons?
  2023-02-04  5:02 ` [TUHS] " Jonathan Gray
@ 2023-02-04  5:51   ` Alexis
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alexis @ 2023-02-04  5:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs


Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au> writes:

> The 2nd edition manual has:
> dpd(I) spawn data-phone daemon
>
> by the 5th edition, there was also:
> lpd(VIII) line printer daemon
>
> The term dates back to CTSS and Multics.

Excellent, thank you!


Alexis.

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