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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
