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From: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: How do you write a daemon?
Keywords: Want to write a program that monitors mouse and keyboard events
Message-ID: <1053@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 03:00:17 GMT
References: <914@altos86.UUCP>
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In article <914@altos86.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
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>  Do I have to write a daemon?  If so, how does one create a daemon?
>

UNIX WORLD Magazine had an excellent tutorial on writing daemons just a few
months ago. Check the Nov or Dec '88 issues, or maybe Jan or Feb '89.

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