There was a proc box in the original Plan B of which there were different version in the descendants (for files too) and which permitted things similar to what you want. See http://lsub.org/ls/export/man.1e.ps (page 31) and http://lsub.org/ls/export/ubiterm.icps05.pdf Later, Andrey and Ron did something similar for clusters with xcpu: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04100349 G. On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Oleksandr Iakovliev wrote: > > Just idea, but seriously, why cannot do something like this: > > # cat /prog/new > $id > # cat /dis/ls.dis > /prog/$id/dis > # echo "/" > /prog/$id/cwd > # echo «Running» > /prog/$id/status > > Not to do it which echo/cat, but to have remote access to /prog/new > -- - curiosity sKilled the cat