On Thu, Mar 31, 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 07:20:13AM -0500, David Schultz wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005, David Leimbach wrote: > > > > Yes, procfs rules! > > > > > > Procfs is from linux? > > > > > > I thought it was from Plan 9... along with rfork :). > > > > Nope. It was first implemented by Sun's Roger Faulkner in SVR4, > > well before Linux or Plan 9 existed. Actually, someone wrote a > > prototype for Unix years earlier than raf, but I don't remember > > who. > > 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? _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
