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Why Unix calls background programs daemons
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Every server is secretly possessed. In Unix-like systems, background programs that handle silent tasks like system logging are officially called 'daemons'. The term was inspired by Maxwell's demon, an imaginary entity from scientific thought experiments. So yes, tech support literally spends their day managing demons that have stopped doing their chores.
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