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[–] zongor@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Many years ago now I was told that we needed a way to turn a series of lights on and off for a custom bit of hardware. The hardware ran a Unix-like system so I decided that a daemon would be a good fit for the use case. I do not know what has become of my daemon of light but I do know whomever uses it must call the “summon” function to daemonize the process