Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752064AbbGFFlC (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2015 01:41:02 -0400 Received: from outbound.smtp.vt.edu ([198.82.183.121]:36234 "EHLO omr2.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbbGFFk5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2015 01:40:57 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.8.0 04/21/2012 with nmh-1.6+dev To: jon@jonshouse.co.uk Cc: Al Viro , coreutils@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Feature request, "create on mount" to create mount point directory on mount, implied remove on unmount In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jul 2015 03:34:59 +0100." <1436150099.16546.346.camel@jonspc> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1435924919.6501.432.camel@jonspc> <172423.1436043394@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1436050108.6501.509.camel@jonspc> <20150705142936.GW17109@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1436111210.16546.29.camel@jonspc> <20150705173925.GX17109@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1436139348.16546.290.camel@jonspc> <20150706010824.GY17109@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1436150099.16546.346.camel@jonspc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1436161237_2208P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 01:40:37 -0400 Message-ID: <6448.1436161237@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2089 Lines: 51 --==_Exmh_1436161237_2208P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 03:34:59 +0100, jon said: > I remember "virtual memory" and even "virtual addressing" but I think > the term "virtual machine" is modern, maybe someone else knows, google > did not help me much trying to prove it one way or the other. Hardly. IBM was working with virtual machines as far back as the IBM S360/67 in the late 60s (and even a highly modified /40), and released VM/370 in 1972. They used the term 'Virtual Machine' as early as 1966: R. J. Adair, R. U. Bayles, L. W. Comeau, and R. J. Creasy, A Virtual Machine System for the 360/40, IBM Corporation, Cambridge Scientific Center Report No. 320-2007 (May 1966) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_%28operating_system%29 (And that's just what I'm familiar with from being a VM jock from 1982 to 2000, I'm sure there's earlier references...) --==_Exmh_1436161237_2208P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iQIVAwUBVZoU1QdmEQWDXROgAQK6EBAAgJRPR4wzoiq9nr7R57EYR8v2aRZKRiOD RE3JrHNHpK7DoSrKXK+NsiiXodconfHwjGWoqwnSK+8O2k0qC+fLj/cPYUeOu4Ap QfXX2+vJGsqadqHrfMREoy0h+0lzrBT4Ti/1p0GKavUv2hMsJKvqPFZZHLfR7lMA rlzU0Ctqn45XWnWFuj6kutomYVsr8A5EEENJv0UUF6sFdsJd6dLB4i9cwG74mP3t YUabfeOi2MJjVznviMPJvEPdmXelQGdMUBRJ//uuGeMNKUarjTwfgLi8ltsRtwY2 ATvAwNOStfrxih6kYOWPDIh90ObmN/zJTy24diA3Af0y40AyBEgHzgs4f/NVHPCu pCWWm7I6E5gA3spMbNNEc60ZTXNgKe+V7NOuwxKxrhcAApkwFN1k1yI9fzrAepnJ 3uGfc4kYhembbQ/BwBekMLiMk8T1NmP0SFpJsncpbwdYE5VF1Nhg3fTBhqSd3GyN eAF7slSqtGp16ANhNcRI7boXgi5VjGcVOfDNnaQ/X70hrcd9v0NQe22Bg5hso5kR owo6erFpiihf9Cy94j609KUlO/33bykNCDvDR2GOa45ZmfGt1QaN0V54fBi/Cnhn BWKUl6wUUXFPpZpeURtn72bx5NKrIwV/VSypNwmySlNLkYw6TNkGZC/2upxxK+0O GXTl1SijhuI= =adym -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1436161237_2208P-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/