Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:20:44 +1000 | From | (Bruce Janson) | Subject | Re: rationale behind /proc filesystem? (wuz Re: 2.0, loggings....) |
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.. Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 22:09:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Michael Neuffer <neuffer@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de> .. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960612220310.451A-100000@kyle.i-Connect.Net> .. 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 ..
Right labs, wrong OS. An earlier /proc was implemented by Tom Killian under Eighth Edition Unix:
%K killian %T Processes as Files %A Killian, T.J. %J USENIX Summer Conference Proceedings %C Salt Lake City, Utah %D June, 1984
plan9 contains one too, as do other recent Unix-like operating systems.
Cheers, Bruce Janson Email: bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au Basser Department of Computer Science Phone: +61-2-351-3423/4 University of Sydney, N.S.W., 2006, AUSTRALIA Fax: +61-2-351-3838
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