Markus Zahn: Unix-Netzwerkprogrammierung mit Threads, Sockets und SSL. Springer, 2006, ISBN 3-540-00299-5, 2. Programmieren mit Unix-Prozessen, S.96, 2.6 Dæmon-Prozesse (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche).
Harry Henderson: Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Überarbeitete Auflage. Facts on File Science Library, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8160-6382-6, S.190f., demon (englisch, eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche): “The unusual computing term demon (sometimes spelled daemon) refers to a process (program) that runs in the background, checking for and responding to certain events.”
Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein: Handbuch zu UNIX-Systemverwaltung. 3. Auflage. Mark+Technik, 2001, ISBN 3-8272-6238-0, 28. Dämonen, S.940, 28.1 init: Der Ur-Prozess (eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche – amerikanisches Englisch: UNIX System Administration Handbook. Übersetzt von Judith Muhr): „init ist der erste Prozess, der ausgeführt wird, nachdem das System gebootet wurde, und in vielerlei Hinsicht stellt er den wichtigsten Dämon dar.“
Alex Guerrieri: Hands-On System Programming with Go. Packt Publishing, 2019, ISBN 978-1-78980-407-2, 7: Handling Processes and Daemons, S.134, Beginning with daemons (englisch, eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche): “In Unix, all of the programs that are running in the background are called daemons. They usually have a name that ends with the letter d, like sshd or syslogd, and they provide many functionalities of the OS.”
Matthew Justice: How Computers Really Work: A Hands-On Guide to the Inner Workings of the Machine. No Starch Press, 2021, ISBN 978-1-71850-066-2, 10: Operating Systems, S.216, Services and Daemons (englisch, eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche): “Operating systems provide the ability for processes to automatically run in the background, without user interaction. Such processes are called services on Windows and daemons on Unix-like systems.”
Fenwick McKelvey: Internet Daemons. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2018, ISBN 978-1-4529-5757-9, 1. The Devil We Know: Maxwell’s Demon, Cyborg Sciences, and Flow Control (englisch, eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche): “Through Project MAC and CTSS, Maxwell’s demon materialized as digital daemons running in computer hardware. The joke became real when the first daemon entered the infrastructure to control tape backup, and the process was known as the Disk And Execution MONitor, or DAEMON.”
Paul Rogers: ABCs of z/OS System Programming. IBM Redbooks, Februar 2011, 6: z/OS UNIX, FTP, and security, S.169, 6.7 z/OS UNIX daemons (englisch, eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche).
Vivek Sharma, Manish Varshney, Shantanu Sharma: Design and Implementation of Operating System. Laxmi Publications, 2010, ISBN 978-93-8038641-6, 4: Introduction to Process, 4.3 Scheduling, S.107, 4.2.3 Daemons (englisch, eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche): “Daemons are a class of processes that run continuously in the background rather than under the direct control of a user. The term is derived from the ancient Greek word ‘daimon’ which refers to a supernatural being that is intermediate between a human and a god or similar to a ‘guiding spirit’. Daemons are generally easy to recognize because their names end with the letter ‘d’.”
