Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:25:03 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> To: David Leimbach <dleimbac@gmail.com>, babkin@FreeBSD.ORG, mohamed aslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: organization Message-ID: <20050331122503.GA15904@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20050331122013.GA11100@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>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:20:13AM -0500, David Schultz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005, David Leimbach wrote: > > > Yes, procfs rules! > > > > Procfs is from linux? > > > > I thought it was from Plan 9... along with rfork :). > > Nope. It was first implemented by Sun's Roger Faulkner in SVR4, > well before Linux or Plan 9 existed. Actually, someone wrote a > prototype for Unix years earlier than raf, but I don't remember > who. procfs comes from v8 (research) unix, a direct predecessor of Plan 9, way before SVR4.
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