[geeks] ps, top, etc.

[Michael-John Turner]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:16:55AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> That indicates that the idea came from V8 but that it only had implemented a
> part of the whole idea, and that it was Plan 9 where /proc was implemented as
> we know it today.

Yep, I think we can agree on that (and thanks for the info, BTW). V8 was
the first to implement the idea of processes being visible as a filesystem,
but the modern procfs in Solaris, *BSD, et al definitely owes more to Plan
9 and the later procfs of SVR4 than to V8. 

-mj
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