[openbeos] Re: power_daemon vs _server.

>>
>> On 2005-02-24 at 14:16:34 [+0100], Mikael Jansson wrote:
>> >
>> > Shouldn't power_daemon really be named power_server as the rest of the
>> > Haiku servers? Daemon is a UNIXy thing, and they usually just append
>> "d"
>> > at the end of the name, i.e., powerd.  We'd use power_server.
>> >
>> > Or... what's the rationale behind choosing the name "power_daemon",
>> Nathan?
>>
>> Maybe to make the syslog_daemon feel less lonely? ;-)
>
> Besides, "server" has more semantics than daemon...
>
Indeed, but this does actually broadcast messages to applications and
such. I'd feel much more comfortable having it as _server, but it doesn't
really matter as long as it's there and working :)

-- tic

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