From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <34cd23a455f27990be39ed910f9b138f@hera.eonet.ne.jp> References: <34cd23a455f27990be39ed910f9b138f@hera.eonet.ne.jp> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:51:28 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] pipefile.c in p9p From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4e261c22-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:21 AM, wrote: > I downloaded Plan9port today, and found thewre is no pipefile. > It's not good to me, because I need ktrans.=E2=98=BA > > Is it difficult to implement REGEND for p9p's rfork? > Or anything other difficulties are there for pipefile.c? I think the main difficulty with pipefile is that there is no /dev/cons for it to sit on top of. You can't just replace /dev/tty on Unix the way you can replace /dev/cons. You'd have to set up another pseudo-tty and pass parameters through, etc. It's a much tougher job on Unix. Russ