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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: example of general name space usage
Message-ID: <14060@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Oct 90 20:20:33 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL), APG, MD.
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In some newsgroup, probably either this one or comp.std.unix, there has
recently been some debate about the utility of having all objects in a
single uniform name space.  While reading the paper "Plan 9 from Bell
Labs", I came across a marvelous example of why this IS a good idea:
A first draft of the "ps" process on Plan 9 would be just
	cat /proc/*/status
Think about it..