What is a Daemon?

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What is a Daemon?..

Answer / kamakshee

The processes like vhand, bdflush, sched are housed in
kernel file or /unix system which are known as daemons.
These files run in the background without users
request.These are created when the system boots up and
remains active till it shut down or hang. These are not
linked to any user or any terminal .We can't kill a daemon.

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What is a Daemon?..

Answer / kesava reddy

Daemon stands for Disk and Execution Monitor. A daemon is a
long-running background process that answers requests for
services.

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What is a Daemon?..

Answer / s v ravi

Daemon is a backgroun process which is executed at all the
time.

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