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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>daemon book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="daemon.html" title="daemon"/><link rel="next" href="dahmum.html" title="dahmum"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">daemon book</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="daemon.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dahmum.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="daemon-book"/><dt xmlns="" id="daemon-book"><b>daemon book</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <i class="citetitle">The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX
Operating System</i>, by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick,
Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989,
ISBN 0-201-06196-1); or <i class="citetitle">The Design and Implementation of the 4.4
BSD Operating System</i> by Marshall Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic,
Michael J. Karels and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1996,
ISBN 0-201-54979-4) Either of the standard reference books on the internals
of <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix. So called because the covers have a
picture depicting a little demon (a visual play on
<a href="daemon.html"><i class="glossterm">daemon</i></a>) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring
to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the
<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fork</span>(2)</span>
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