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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?)
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 09:55:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic0E=0dLT2JaDJv0OCBQUBaqKd6+2hy30hpKjowPVc76BA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4Qyn4A=SQb9-_uOPR=K8mriFUqmwU9YQoy2-Kekb0VnQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 8:20 AM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Unix pipelines, on the other hand, tend to be used in a manner that is
> strictly linear, without the fan-out and fan-in capabilities described
> by Morrison. Of course, nothing prevents one from building a
> Morrison-style "network" from Unix processes and pipes, though it's
> hard to see how that would work without something like `select`, which
> didn't yet exist in 1978. Regardless, Unix still doesn't expose a
> particularly convenient syntax for expressing these sorts of
> constructions at the shell.
>
>
Rick Troth has recently published xfl, which is pretty much CMS Pipelines
for Unix.

https://github.com/trothtech/xfl

He's got a slide deck on it at
http://www.casita.net/pub/xfl/pervasive-vmws-2024.pdf .

There are a lot of really cool things you can do with fanin/fanout.

Adam

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-12-05 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-04  3:17 [TUHS] After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been? sjenkin
2024-12-04 13:05 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2024-12-04 13:40   ` William Cheswick
2024-12-04 15:02   ` Rich Salz
2024-12-05  3:08   ` John Levine
2024-12-05 15:19     ` [TUHS] Re: Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?) Dan Cross
2024-12-05 16:00       ` John R Levine
2024-12-05 16:17         ` Heinz Lycklama
2024-12-05 17:06           ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-05 17:53             ` John Cowan
2024-12-05 18:05             ` John Levine
2024-12-05 17:22           ` Paul Winalski
2024-12-05 18:19         ` Ron Natalie
2024-12-06  2:29           ` Adam Thornton
2024-12-07 20:38             ` Ron Natalie
2024-12-05 16:55       ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2024-12-05 17:35       ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-12-05 20:55         ` arnold
2024-12-05 21:12           ` Dan Cross
2024-12-05 21:50             ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-05 22:03             ` Warner Losh
2024-12-05 22:19               ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-12-05 23:07                 ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-06  8:16                   ` Diomidis Spinellis
2024-12-06  0:46                 ` Alexis
2024-12-06 21:46                   ` Chet Ramey via TUHS
2024-12-05 23:07               ` arnold
2024-12-06  1:09                 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-12-06  1:31                   ` Greg A. Woods
2024-12-06  2:05                     ` Steve Nickolas
2024-12-06 16:44                     ` arnold
2024-12-05 22:05             ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-12-06  2:02             ` John Levine
2024-12-06  2:21               ` Dan Cross
2024-12-06 16:46                 ` arnold
2024-12-06  2:26 Douglas McIlroy

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