From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 0ffea361 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B0FDF9BDA5; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:51:45 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C416C9BD16; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:51:28 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9F9ED9BD16; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:51:26 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 544 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:51:26 AEST Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (ns1.bitblocks.com [173.228.5.8]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1599C9BD15 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:51:26 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mob.bitblocks.com (mob.bitblocks.com [192.168.125.11]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2778A156E40C; Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\)) From: Bakul Shah In-Reply-To: <1561491205.19116.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:42:07 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <1561491205.19116.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> To: Norman Wilson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.11) Subject: Re: [TUHS] 4.1c bsd ptrace man entry ("ptrace is unique and arcane") X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Jun 25, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Norman Wilson 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