You often need programs that run continuously in the background. For example, an email server is expected to listen continuously on a network port for incoming email messages, a print spooler is expected to listen continuously to print requests, and so on.
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listen continuously on a network port for incoming email messages, a print spooler is expected to listen continuously to print requests, and so on.