Editing Daemon (computing) (section)

===Mac===
In [[classic Mac OS]], optional features and services were provided by [[Extension (Mac OS)|system extensions]] and [[Control panel (Mac OS)|control panels]] {{endash}} files loaded at startup time that patched the operating system. Later versions of classic Mac OS augmented these with [[Extension (Mac OS)#Faceless background applications|faceless background applications]]: regular applications that ran in the background. To the user, these were still described as regular system extensions.

The more modern [[macOS]], which is [[Unix]]-based, uses daemons but uses the term "services" to designate software that performs functions selected from the [[Services menu#macOS|Services menu]], rather than using that term for daemons, as Windows does.