Tim Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:48:25 +1000, Oliver Bock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hardly! It's as old as the X window system. /proc first appeared in > SVR4 in 1984. Solaris had it in version 2.5. OpenBSD has it. I'd be > shocked if FreeBSD didn't, and I'm very surprised that OS/X doesn't. >
Plenty of weird stuff came out with SVR4. Sensible people (and their operating systems) shunned these innovations for the architectural purity of the original BSD mechanisms. Sadly Linux has ushered in the age of *nix populism, and now everybody wants everything. Oliver P.S. http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/procfs/ explains a bit about why OS X doesn't have it. _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list Webware-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
