[geeks] ps, top, etc.

Tue Apr 18 02:02:00 CDT 2006

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:53:14AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> /proc originated in Plan 9, and then was adopted by Linux.

According to all the references I can find, /proc was first implemented by
Tom J. Killian in V8. It's documented in "Processes as Files", USENIX
Summer Conference Proceedings, June 1984. Two Plan 9-related articles seem
to support this:
http://202.179.135.4/data/DDJ/articles/1991/9101/9101b/9101b.htm
http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/names.html

-mj
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