> Where do you think /proc came from? UNIX 8th Edition (http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pdf http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84

> Where do you think /proc came from? UNIX 8th Edition (http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pdf http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pdf) and SRV4 (https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_faulkner.pdf https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/usenix_winter91_f...) A better analogy would be /dev, but that was already part of Unix from the beginning. Plan 9 is really about per process, user mountable namespaces implemented by 9P-speaking user processes; basically what you said, sans the origin of synthetic file systems and file-like objects.