Information: - The Berkeley Automounter ( or amd ) first appeared in 4.4BSD , and is a computer automounter daemon . The original Berkeley automounter was created by Jan - Simon Pendry in 1989 and was donated to Berkeley . After languishing for a few years , the maintainership was picked up by Erez Zadok , who has maintained it since 1993 . The am - utils package which comprises amd is included with FreeBSD , NetBSD , and OpenBSD . It is also included with a vast number of Linux distributions , including Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Fedora Core , ASPLinux , Trustix , Mandriva , and others . The Berkeley automounter has a large number of contributors , including several who worked on the original automounter with Jan - Simon Pendry . It is one of the oldest and more portable automounters available today , as well as the most flexible and the most widely used . - Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. - An automounter is any program or software facility which automatically mounts filesystems in response to access operations by user programs. An automounter system utility (daemon under Unix), when notified of file and directory access attempts under selectively monitored subdirectory trees, dynamically and transparently makes local or remote devices accessible. Given the information, choose the subject and object entities that have the relation of 'instance of'.
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berkeley automounter , software