Re: [9fans] Questions on notes

["Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>]

> Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading
> on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing
> that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would
> constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes
> externally using a different kind of IPC to communicate with
> the target. Am I dreaming? Would this be completely impossible
> to implement using /proc/n/note ?

If proc n needs to know about this design, then could
you just always direct the notes to the "thief?"  Or
if the thief were a little file server, could you bind
the file he listens to on top of /proc/n/note?

BLS