On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:13:24PM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > Given that the "Unix model" is incorporating useful concepts from Plan 9 and > other systems as fast as it can absorb them, I'd say it anticipates the > direction things are going rather nicely. Where do you think the idea behind > pseudo-filesystems like proc and sysfs came from? It certainly didn't > originate in Unix, you can be certain of that.
procfs came from UNIX v8, the first research unix after the commercial variant forked. It found it's way back into the commercial UNIX and Linux world via plan9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
