On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 23:22 +0100, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > But can't you `script' by calling an external program, sending it your > input, and reading its output?
Well, the way I see it: exec'ing is just a way to get to a transient channel. Its no different from that very same channel being present permanently in /srv or /mnt/factotum/rpc. There's *slightly* less overhead with pipes, but that's about it. Thanks, Roman.
