Re: [TUHS] 4.1c bsd ptrace man entry ("ptrace is unique and arcane")

[Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>]

On Jun 25, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> 
> It's interesting that this comment about ptrace was written
> as early as 1980.
> 
> Ron Minnich's reference to Plan 9 /proc misses the mark, though.
> By the time Plan 9 was written, System V already had /proc; see
> 
> https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_faulkner.pdf
> 
> And as the authors say, the idea actually dates back to Tom Killian's
> /proc in Research UNIX.  I don't know when Tom's code first went
> live, but I first heard about it by seeing it in action on my first
> visit to Bell Labs in early 1984, and it was described in public in
> a talk at the Summer 1984 USENIX conference in Salt Lake City.
> I cannot quickly find an online copy of the corresponding paper;
> pointers appreciated.  (Is there at least an online index of BTL
> CSTRs?  The big search engine run by the place that still has
> some 1127 old-timers can't find that either.)

http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pdf