From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:19:51 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <<20091207120652.GB16320@knaagkever.ueber.net>> References: <<20091207120652.GB16320@knaagkever.ueber.net>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions Topicbox-Message-UUID: a9b05450-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > since file descriptors are so essential, it may help to have "tools" > to use them. yesterday evening i hacked up devbuf.c and devjoin.c > after reading this thread. both offer a file "new". for devbuf.c > you can write data to it, then later consume it (yes, you could just > use a pipe instead). why can't you use ramfs instead of devbuf? - erik