From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:38:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4e6ca2050907180138n10d83337v193e031bb56192b3@mail.gmail.com> From: Akshat Kumar To: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] channels across machines Topicbox-Message-UUID: 258e050a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 The idea seems inviting at first, but have you given a thought to using plumber(4) for "interprocess messaging" (which is what you want, from what I understand)? This seems more appropriate for communication amongst processes alien to one another than something so code-level like a chan extension. at least, in terms of Plan 9 ak