From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 13:26:49 -0500 To: blstuart@bellsouth.net, 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Questions on notes Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e42bafc-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > Frankly, I was trying to see whether an external process reading > > on somebody else's /proc/n/note would make any sense. One thing > > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would > > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes > > externally using a different kind of IPC to communicate with > > the target. Am I dreaming? Would this be completely impossible > > to implement using /proc/n/note ? > > If proc n needs to know about this design, then could > you just always direct the notes to the "thief?" Or > if the thief were a little file server, could you bind > the file he listens to on top of /proc/n/note? the kernel would not notice this binding. - erik