From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 17:51:09 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <20170923091704.GD10152@darioniedermann.it> <20170924140617.GG28606@mcvoy.com> <20170924203621.GA80203@wopr> <49B7FCB8-A086-4FFB-AF3B-4B3BD167EC54@bitblocks.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Sep 2017, Bakul Shah wrote: >> >> There are just a few potential users of /proc and they were already using >>> other facilities. plus /proc is an optional facility. All this conspired to >>> make /proc less useful in FreeBSD. Unused code is in danger of being >>> garbage collected in FreeBSD :-) >>> >> >> Whatever happened to the Unix philosophy of everything looking like a >> file? Adding more system calls is the Windoze (or perhaps Penguin) way of >> doing things. >> >> >> > I once thought of trying to develop an OS where not only was everything a > file, but programs were in effect functions that could be chained together. > > Then decided it was too radical. > You were reinventing Multics. -- Charles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: