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What (who) is daemon - definition

GOOD OR BENEVOLENT NATURE SPIRIT IN CLASSICAL GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Daimon (Greek Mythology); Daemon (Greek Mythology); Daimon (Greek mythology); Daemon (Greek mythology); Dämonium; Creativity demons; Daimōn; Δαίμων; Daemonium; Damonium; Daimons; Daemones; Δαίμονες; Δαήμονες; Daēmones; Daimonions; Daemon (mythology); Daimonia; Δαιμόνια; Daimon (classical mythology); Daemons (classical mythology); Daemon (classical mythology); Daemon
  • Minoan Crete]], NAMA
  • gem]] imprint representing [[Socrates]], Rome, first century BC – first century AD.
  • genius]] facing a woman with a tambourine and mirror, from southern Italy, about 320 BC.

daemon         
<operating system> /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythological meaning, later rationalised as the acronym "Disk And Execution MONitor") A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action only because it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon). For example, under ITS writing a file on the LPT spooler's directory would invoke the spooling daemon, which would then print the file. The advantage is that programs wanting files printed need neither compete for access to, nor understand any idiosyncrasies of, the LPT. They simply enter their implicit requests and let the daemon decide what to do with them. Daemons are usually spawned automatically by the system, and may either live forever or be regenerated at intervals. Unix systems run many daemons, chiefly to handle requests for services from other hosts on a network. Most of these are now started as required by a single real daemon, inetd, rather than running continuously. Examples are cron (local timed command execution), rshd (remote command execution), rlogind and telnetd (remote login), ftpd, nfsd (file transfer), lpd (printing). Daemon and demon are often used interchangeably, but seem to have distinct connotations (see demon). The term "daemon" was introduced to computing by CTSS people (who pronounced it /dee'mon/) and used it to refer to what ITS called a dragon. [Jargon File] (1995-05-11)
DAEMON         
Disk And Execution MONitor (Reference: Unix)
Daemon         
·adj ·Alt. of Daemonic.

Wikipedia

Daimon

Daimon or Daemon (Ancient Greek: δαίμων, "god", "godlike", "power", "fate") originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy. The word is derived from Proto-Indo-European daimon "provider, divider (of fortunes or destinies)," from the root *da- "to divide". Daimons were possibly seen as the souls of men of the golden age acting as tutelary deities, according to entry δαίμων at Liddell & Scott. See also daimonic: a religious, philosophical, literary and psychological concept.

Examples of use of daemon
1. Lyra comes from "Oxford", but it is a city in a parallel world where people have "daemon" familiars.
2. Everyone in Pullman‘s universe has a daemon, which is an animal who represents the core of who we are, our souls.
3. One hundred pages of the novel are packed into the first, breathlessly explicatory 15 minutes, introducing not only our spirited pre–adolescent heroine, Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards), and her shape–shifting daemon, Pantalaimon (voiced by Freddie Highmore), but also several parents and mentors, a quick political synopsis, a plot strand or three, and the mysteries of Pullman‘s sophisticated cosmology, which I won‘t attempt to summarize here.