[Gllug] Unkillable process

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Thu Jul 4 11:43:03 UTC 2002


On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 12:04:39PM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
> On Thursday 04 July 2002 11:08, Huw Lynes wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 July 2002 10:52, you wrote:
> > > AFIR 5.4 /proc inspired the Linux /proc which is light years ahead.
> >
> > I'd always heard that the linux /proc was inspired by Plan9.
> 
> So what IS Plan 9 and does any-one actually use it?

Google is my brain... I think it can be summed up as an attempt
by Bell Labs to build 'A better UNIX than UNIX' - I'll let someone
else comment on whether they were actually successful at that goal ;-)

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/9.html
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/

Dan.
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