20 Mar
2018
20 Mar
'18
7:47 a.m.
"A. P. Garcia" <a.phillip.garcia(a)gmail.com> writes:
The Hacker's Dictionary says that daemons were so
named in CTSS. I'm
guessing then that Ken Thompson brought them into Unix? I've noticed that
more recent implementations of init have shunned the traditional
terminology in favor of the more prosaic word "services". For example,
Solaris now has SMF, the Service Management Facility, and systemd, the
linux replacement for init, has services as well. It makes me a little sad,
because it feels like some of the imaginativeness, fancifulness, and
playfulness that imbue the Unix spirit are being lost.
Sweet and sour observation indeed. I totally agree. However, not all
is lost and there is some poetic justice in systemd being called
system-D, where the last letter still stands for a daemon.
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