Going back to the debate on Daemon (older form of demon), as I recall, the reason why these are called daemons (or ghosts) as because these processes are not tied to any PHYSICAL terminal (or body), hence the term ghost or daemons.
-- Kelsey Hartigan Go Registered Linux user #5998
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