> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Akshat > Kumar<aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote: > > The idea seems inviting at first, but have you > > given a thought to using plumber(4) for > > "interprocess messaging" (which is what you > > want, from what I understand)? This seems > > more appropriate for communication amongst > > processes alien to one another than something > > so code-level like a chan extension. > > Acme does this.
the plumber is pretty far from a channel. a channel has one input and one output. the plumber has one input and many ouputs and uses a dynamic ruleset to route messages. let's not confuse them. however, the fact that plumber implements a fs and the import(4) and cpu(1) illustrates how one could use a pipe to build a inter-machine chan-like mechanism. i say chan-like because this ignores data marshalling. - erik
