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Subject: Re: organization
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch () infradead ! org>
Date: 2005-03-31 13:49:48
Message-ID: 20050331134948.GA17104 () infradead ! org
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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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