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   Dan McDonald (danmcd@hostux.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 13:29:25 JST Dan McDonald

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   • Joshua M. Clulow

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   pgrep & pkill got brought up during Solaris 2.6, as part of a "get shit booting faster" effort. Lots of `ps -ef | grep....` pipelines in those < 2.6 init scripts.

   I remember being pleased learning about it.

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     Joshua M. Clulow (jmc@m.unix.house)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 13:29:26 JST Joshua M. Clulow

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     @danmcd Yes! I was looking into the origin of ptree(1), which was present then also. No pgrep(1) or pkill(1) yet, apparently.

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     Dan McDonald (danmcd@hostux.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 13:29:28 JST Dan McDonald

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     • Joshua M. Clulow

     @jmc

     So pwait(1), my personal favorite, was there the whole time... thanks for the glimpse of the past.

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     Joshua M. Clulow (jmc@m.unix.house)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2024 13:29:29 JST Joshua M. Clulow

     It is a rich tapestry of feelings to read through the proc(1) manual page from Solaris 2.5, dated literally 30 years ago in 1994:

     https://sysmgr.org/~jclulow/sol25/proc.1.html

     And then compare it with the modern equivalent in illumos:

     https://illumos.org/man/1/proc and https://illumos.org/man/1/ptree