daemon book

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daemon book - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  daemon book
   n.
  
     The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System, by
     Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and
  John
     S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1);
     or The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System 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 BSD Unix. So
     called because the covers have a picture depicting a little demon (a
     visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring
     to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the fork(2) system
     call).