/proc/thanks (Was: Boot messages)

Jason L Tibbitts III (tibbs@hpc.uh.edu)
01 Jul 1996 23:28:10 -0500


>>>>> "WL" == Warner Losh <imp@village.org> writes:

WL> I don't know about the others, but my contributions to the Linux kernel
WL> have been minor at best [...] I certainly don't deserve a boot time
WL> message for that :-)

OK, in the spirit of /proc/animal (or whatever, the thing that spits
something like "18-wheeler flattened swamp rat on nerve gas" depending on
the kernel version) we need /proc/thanks, or a replacement for fortune that
spews credit for one random Linux contributor. Why not?

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