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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

An amazing directory: /proc

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An amazing directory: /proc

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    23 hours ago

    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.)

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      I 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.

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        14 hours ago

        Well that is retrograde of it.

        Another cool thing from Plan9:

        https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst

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