Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:16:42 -0500 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: organization Message-ID: <20050331131642.GA11383@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20050331122503.GA15904@infradead.org> 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>
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. 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?
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