Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 1996 22:09:28 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Michael Neuffer <> | Subject | Re: rationale behind /proc filesystem? (wuz Re: 2.0, loggings....) |
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On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Hasdi R Hashim wrote: > > Why not add a syscall? Can somebody explain this me? :} > > > > Hmm, well as far as I rember, we stole the idea from AT&T^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H > saw it in some AT&T Unix, and 'borrowed' the idea ;)
Actually this comes from Plan9, a new designed OS from the AT&T labs with some of the same people working in the background working, that already "invented" the original AT&T Unix.
It is a beast you have to get used to. Some people love it, others hate it for the strangest reasons.
Mike
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