publication "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).
The standard reference book on the internals of
BSD Unix.
So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little
devil (a visual play on
daemon) in sneakers, holding a
pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of
(1996-12-03)