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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: ralph@inputplus.co.uk, lm@mcvoy.com
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First appearance of named pipes
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2020 07:25:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202003081325.028DPGEg009475@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200308130742.0AE102212F@orac.inputplus.co.uk>

Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Larry,
>
> > Did Plan 9 make it sane?  If so, care to say how or point me at something
> > like Masscomp's introduction to network programming?
>
> There's Plan 9's dial(2) and friends.
> http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/dial
> The ctl file of a connection takes commands like ‘hangup’.
> http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/ip
>
> The idea of dial() just doing the right thing lives on with Go's
> https://golang.org/pkg/net/#pkg-overview
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Ralph.

But more than that is that all files are served via the 9P protocol,
even local ones.

This is a great intro to Plan 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m3GuoaxRNM

Just over an hour and a quarter, but well worth the time.

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-08 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-06 22:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-07 12:17 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-07 13:29   ` Clem Cole
2020-03-07 16:39   ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-08  2:36     ` Rob Pike
2020-03-08  2:47       ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-08 13:07         ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-03-08 13:25           ` arnold [this message]
2020-03-08  3:06       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-08  7:16       ` arnold
2020-03-08 15:13       ` [TUHS] sockets (was Re: First appearance of named pipes) Derek Fawcus
2020-03-09 23:22         ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-09 23:44           ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-23  8:49           ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-24  9:47             ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-25 23:25               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-25 23:47                 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-26  0:11                   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-26  0:18                     ` Richard Salz
2020-03-26  1:08                       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-26  2:38                         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-26  3:08                           ` Rob Pike
2020-03-26  3:43                             ` George Michaelson
2020-03-26  4:11                           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-28 11:12                           ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-28 11:14                             ` Peter Pentchev
2020-03-28 16:03                               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-03-26  1:20                       ` Tony Finch
2020-03-27 10:51                   ` Derek Fawcus
2020-03-09 23:22 ` [TUHS] First appearance of named pipes Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-10  7:29   ` arnold
2020-03-11  2:47     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-11  7:02       ` arnold
2020-03-10 13:49   ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-10 20:26     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-10 20:37       ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-11  2:51       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-08 21:42 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-08 22:04 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-06 20:41 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-03-06 21:06 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-06 21:10   ` Clem Cole
2020-03-07  5:08     ` Heinz Lycklama

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