> I was happy to find out that the /proc system came from Plan9 because > I always thought Plan9 was dead water. But in this particular case > Plan9 outdid System7 in the the realm of "everything is a file" by > making everything a file.
However, on Plan 9, /proc/<n>/fd is not a directory, but a regular text file. There would be one line in this file per open file descriptor, see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/proc Also notice that the /proc filesystem did *not* come from Plan 9 originally, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs It originally came from Unix V8, in 1984. In that version, each entry in /proc was a file, essentially giving access to the process' address space. Supposedly, it was still possible to find out the list of open files using that interface, see http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
