Yes, it was just a terse way of putting it: by long running I really mean something that runs more or less indefinitely, usually serving "external" requests, li

Yes, it was just a terse way of putting it: by long running I really mean something that runs more or less indefinitely, usually serving "external" requests, like a server or daemon vs "short running" where I mean something that is triggered to do a specific job: think a compiler or compressor or whatever. Of course you could have short running servers or long running full-CPU processes too. Long/short probably are the