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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: example of general name space usage
Message-ID: <14069@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:57:57 GMT
References: <14060@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4932:Oct902:45:5390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <4932:Oct902:45:5390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>So what? It would be just as easy if /proc were in a separate namespace,
>and had a program other than cat to open process files.

My point was that no process-specific applications were required.
The shell (/bin/rc) performs the globbing to find out what exists
in the specified subspace, and passes the list to "cat" which
copies the contents of each object in sequence to the standard
output.  This is an example of using standard tools in novel ways,
which is the main reason that UNIX is as useful as it is.  There
is great power in universality.