Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:49:48 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, David Leimbach <dleimbac@gmail.com>, babkin@FreeBSD.ORG, mohamed aslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: organization Message-ID: <20050331134948.GA17104@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20050331131642.GA11383@VARK.MIT.EDU> References: <319cceca0503281001792baf39@mail.gmail.com> <42485A54.9000101@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <319cceca05032811484cb1a95b@mail.gmail.com> <42487982.30909@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <319cceca05032907411014a218@mail.gmail.com> <424B6137.15A5940A@verizon.net> <5bbfe7d405033018504af3140d@mail.gmail.com> <20050331122013.GA11100@VARK.MIT.EDU> <20050331122503.GA15904@infradead.org> <20050331131642.GA11383@VARK.MIT.EDU>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:16:42AM -0500, David Schultz wrote: > > procfs comes from v8 (research) unix, a direct predecessor of Plan 9, > > way before SVR4. > > That's the prototype I was talking about, but I believe it was not > an official part of version 8 (to the extent that anything was). > It certainly never made it to System V. Do you recall who wrote the > prototype? Not sure I'd call V8 a prototype ;-) See: T. J. Killian, `Processes as Files' USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings, June 1984, Salt Lake City, UT, USA for the glory details
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