From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:41:45 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines In-Reply-To: References: <79091EE2-D7F8-4BE2-9422-47C365780367@berwynlodge.com> <20170110162024.GP8099@mcvoy.com> <58750ac6.xDyt5KJHPLKiEQfS%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: <58750ec9.2evCIrgfc9yC6OV7%schily@schily.net> Berny Goodheart wrote: > >> Pretty sure /proc was not a SunOS thing. > > > > and I believe that Roger Faulkner did come from AT&T > > Yes. And I should know this as I communicated and met with him on several occasions when I was developing /proc for Janus (Linux binary emulation) on Solaris x86. > So, I was defo wrong on this. /proc was done by Roger at AT&T (maybe USL). I recall him telling me that he was not the original author though and that it came from PWB. AFAIK, Roger was the original author for ProcFS-II that was introduced later in SunOS-5 (I believe it was Solaris-2.6) and introduced subdirectories. Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/