* [TUHS] Initial uses of the '-d' convention for daemons?
@ 2023-02-04 4:10 Alexis
2023-02-04 5:02 ` [TUHS] " Jonathan Gray
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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
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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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