What is daemon mode?

[Chriswaterguy]

An explanation of daemon mode would be handy on the wiki page, i.e. what exactly happens when the user runs:

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pcmanfm --daemon-mode &

I know this line can be run at startup (e.g. in autostart.sh if running Openbox, rather than LXDE). Does this just mean that it detects drives being plugged in so it can auto-mount? And so if I don't want automount, I don't need this?

(Using PCManFM 0.9.7-1 with CrunchBang Statler Openbox, which is closely based on Debian Stable.)