Re: [9fans] How would you go about implementing this in Plan9?

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

what about a pipe?
juke spawns /bin/games/mp3dec, page, png(1), jpg(1), etc
there's even an avidec somewhere intended to be used that way, if I'm not
mistaken.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Eugene Gorodinsky
<e.gorodinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose you're writing an app such as a multiprotocol instant messenger or a
> mediaplayer that supports multiple container formats and codecs. It's a good
> idea for your app to have a plug-in functionality, so that plugins could be
> developed independently and functionality added to the program without the
> need to recompile the whole thing. On a system that supports dynamic linking
> this is trivial. On Plan9 I'm not sure how to go about this. Having separate
> processes interacting with the main one seems somewhat wrong to me (slower,
> more overhead etc). Perhaps it's better to implement a limited form of
> dynamic linking, so that modules compiled to load dynamically could be
> loaded by the application that wants to load them whenever it needs. What do
> you think?



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Federico G. Benavento