On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 09:26:29PM -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote: Didn't Roger Faulkner have something to do with that? Or did he come after? I ask because Roger and I were friends, so I'm always curious about his history. How we became friends is some folklore from Sun, it was when Solaris was a thing so it was SysV based and it had /proc. I had some question about /proc and I heard Roger was the guy, he was pretty much directly under me in building 5, I went down and kind of hung out in his doorway waiting for him to look up. Nothing. 10 minutes later, nothing, he's staring intently at his screen and working, I might as well have been invisible. So I go into his office and sit on his desk. Without looking up he says something like "who the hell are you and what do you want?". "I want to ask you a question" "And why should I answer?" "Because I'm going to sit on your desk and belch and fart until you do" He leaned back, roared with laughter, and we became friends right there. He's left us, I still miss him. Huge nerd, cared deeply about doing the right thing in the code. --lm