Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:49:19 +0200 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newer names Message-ID: <3F534E5F.3090509@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <20030830152521.GA54379@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <1e2.f3352ba.2c81bfb8@aol.com> <005e01c36ef5$c9b17900$2401010a@zone3000.net> <3F50B100.1020601@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> <20030830152521.GA54379@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:13:20PM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: > >>Vitali Malicky wrote: >> >>>What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all >>>serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run >>>other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And >>>many >>>my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it also as PROCESS. >> >>You've made me curious. Can you explain me the acronym DRAGON? Or did >>you just make that up? > > > 'Dragon' is not an acronym. It is just a name. 'Daemon' is not an > acronym either despite what some people tell you. > The expansion 'Disk And Execution MONitor' was made up after the term > 'daemon' had come in use, and should not be used. I believe the correct term is a backronym :) David
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