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Article #133Re: named pipes (was: Finger and .plan, .project)
From: Ian Fitchet
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:52
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:52
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Please excuse technical abberations, I'm still learning :-) On 26 Jul 92 16:58:38 GMT, Tom Christiansen wrote Tom> Furthermore, I believe that under both Plan9 and SunOS that you can have a Tom> filesystem type that does the right thing, so if people did this: Tom> ln -s ~/.plan /plans/$USER Tom> Then have /plans be a special filesystem type that triggers invocation Tom> of the right code. It doesn't strike me as being a particularly large step to modify the code that catches /dev/* entries. Devices are caught by the kernel and the device driver is invoked, would it not be possible to flag a file such that when it's opened a user process is invoked (a la inetd). How you do this is another matter, of course :-). Perhaps registering a table of file/proc pairs with a default for unregistered ones? -- Cheers, Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Fitchet I.D.Fitchet@cs.bham.ac.uk School of Computer Science Univ. of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!news.cs.bham.ac.uk!idf From: idf@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Fitchet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: named pipes (was: Finger and .plan, .project) Message-ID: <IDF.92Jul27105241@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk> Date: 27 Jul 92 10:52:41 GMT References: <19076@fritz.filenet.com> <14u80cINNbd8@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> <1992Jul26.165838.1278@news.eng.convex.com> Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk Followup-To: comp.unix.programmer Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 26 Jul 92 16:58:38 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: fattie