Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:13:24 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Grozdan Nikolov <microchip@chello.be>, Torsten Duwe <duwe@lst.de>,
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Subject: Re: How innovative is Linux?
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:02:29 +0100
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Proc type stuff is a lot older than Linux or Unix AFAIK. Loadable modules
> > ditto but the full load/unload/autoload stuff I've not seen pre-Linux.
> 
> Representation of process state and control of that state via files on
> a filesystem? 

I don't know about proc in that sense prior to v8 unix I was thinking
about the logical device stuff and filesystem objects/namepaces that
produced program generated data.


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