27 Mar
2018
27 Mar
'18
11:20 a.m.
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
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