popcar2@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev • 8 months agoDynamic Programming is not Black Magic – Quentin Santosexternal-linkmessage-square8 fedilinkarrow-up112
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minus-squaretatterdemalion@programming.devhexbear4·8 months ago “Daemon”, for a process that is detached from your terminal That's factually incorrect. Daemons are often spawned from "early" processes whose ancestors are not TTYs. linkfedilink
minus-squareericjmorey@programming.devhexbear3·edit-28 months ago “Cascading Style Sheets”, just to mean that properties can be overridden This one is really wrong too. But I think his overall point is made clear by other examples. Nomenclature tends toward jargon in software culture. But that's true in any field. linkfedilink
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chhexbear3·8 months agoNo, seriously. Article probably means background processes. Maybe aplies to session-daemons or user-daemons. Other daemons (udev, logrotate) were started long before there was any shell. linkfedilink
That's factually incorrect. Daemons are often spawned from "early" processes whose ancestors are not TTYs.
This one is really wrong too. But I think his overall point is made clear by other examples. Nomenclature tends toward jargon in software culture.
But that's true in any field.
No, seriously. Article probably means background processes. Maybe aplies to session-daemons or user-daemons. Other daemons (udev, logrotate) were started long before there was any shell.