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From: mj@mjturner.net (Michael-John Turner)
Subject: [TUHS] mail tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:20:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180327092057.zukptcqehbaoyshr@saucer.turnde.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180324015436.GQ18044@mcvoy.com>

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 01:54:36AM +0000, Larry McVoy wrote:
>Didn't Roger Faulkner have something to do with that?  Or did he come
>after?

I mistakenly thought /proc was Roger Faulkner's creation. A little bit of 
digging turned up this reasonable summary: 
https://blogs.oracle.com/eschrock/a-brief-history-of-proc

The best part is that it contains the references to the original papers
(links added by me):
T. J. Killian. Processes as Files. Proceedings of the USENIX Software Tools 
Users Group Summer Conference, pp 203-207, June 1984 [1]

R. Faulkner and R. Gomes. The Process File System and Process Model in UNIX 
System V. USENIX Conference Proceedings. Dallas, Texas. January 1991 [2]

[1] http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pdf
[2] https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_faulkner.pdf

Cheers, MJ
-- 
Michael-John Turner * mj at mjturner.net * http://mjturner.net/ 



  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-27  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-24  1:26 Doug McIlroy
2018-03-24  1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-27  9:20   ` Michael-John Turner [this message]
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2018-01-22 12:31 [TUHS] !mail tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Doug McIlroy

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