From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4c13fc3263294b597d499911f335ac69@terzarima.net> References: <4c13fc3263294b597d499911f335ac69@terzarima.net> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:35:16 +0100 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba40912070435r68e58e78v3792fed2ff1cab61@mail.gmail.com> From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions Topicbox-Message-UUID: a9e76e0e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hmmm. That's what a cat device do, only that it does so by looking at the sizes and not at eof indications. Also, it depends on seek pos., which wont work for streams. Perhaps a streamcat, although I don't like to have cats and streamcats. Perhaps yet another option. fs is already larger than it was, there's an experimental ongoing version that knows enough of partitioning to help usb and others on that respect. Trying is fun, anyway. On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Charles Forsyth wrote: >>bind '#j4.5' /mnt/joined >> ... to get a (read-only) fd that satisfies reads from fd 4 >>until eof, then fd 5. > > i wonder if there's a way of perverting fs(3) > >