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- 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
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- In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 26 Jul 92 16:58:38 GMT
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- Please excuse technical abberations, I'm still learning :-)
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- On 26 Jul 92 16:58:38 GMT, Tom Christiansen wrote
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- 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:
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- Tom> ln -s ~/.plan /plans/$USER
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- 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).
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- 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
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- Ian Fitchet I.D.Fitchet@cs.bham.ac.uk
- School of Computer Science
- Univ. of Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
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