zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 days agoAn amazing directory: /proclemmy.mlimagemessage-square74linkfedilinkarrow-up1931arrow-down13
arrow-up1928arrow-down1imageAn amazing directory: /proclemmy.mlzarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 days agomessage-square74linkfedilink
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 days agoGot to love UNIX’s everything is a file. ProcFS is from Plan9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#/proc Plan9 is worth a deep dive, but maybe not worth running. It is more UNIX than UNIX. (Also where UTF8 came from.)
minus-squarefriend_of_satan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoI did not know that about plan9! /proc was one of the things I missed most when I switched from daily driving linux to daily driving osx.
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoWell that is retrograde of it. Another cool thing from Plan9: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
Got to love UNIX’s everything is a file.
ProcFS is from Plan9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#/proc
Plan9 is worth a deep dive, but maybe not worth running. It is more UNIX than UNIX. (Also where UTF8 came from.)
I did not know that about plan9!
/procwas one of the things I missed most when I switched from daily driving linux to daily driving osx.Well that is retrograde of it.
Another cool thing from Plan9:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst