Re: [9fans] Distributed Pipelines

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

Thanks Steve,

rx $cpu 'procdata' | process

works well for one way.
However,

procdata | rx $cpu 'process'

is in the same way as with cpu(1).
Any suggestions for piping in that
direction?


Best,
ak

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> cpu -c 'procdata' | process
>> ...
>> Perhaps I'm overlooking some simple solutions here.
>> Any suggestions?
>
> cpu(1) works by starting exportfs on the remote machine and serving
> the local machines filespace. The remote shell is started with its
> stdin/out/err attached to /mnt/term/dev/cons, thus the command you
> tried will not work (by design).
>
> what you want is rx(1) which does exactly what you want, somthing
> like rsh(1) from the Unix world, except it uses plan9' secure
> authentication; e.g.:
>
>        rx $cpu | process
>
> -Steve
>
>