From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101210094607.GF4184@fangle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20101210094607.GF4184@fangle.proxima.alt.za> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:58:13 +0100 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] How would you go about implementing this in Plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8ac86d7e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Sometimes simple traditional apps with stdin and stdout will also suffice... On 12/10/10, Lucio De Re wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: >> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:34:41 +0200 >> From: Eugene Gorodinsky >> To: 9fans@9fans.net >> Subject: [9fans] How would you go about implementing this in Plan9? >> >> 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 > > You build them all into the synthetic files server, but only activate the > needed ones as commanded through a control channel or file. In such > case, you can define the communication mechanism and may do better > than with loadable modules, where you can never be certain that they'll > be available. > > ++L > >