Phillip Susi wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > It would need to be an active participant in the I/O.
> 
> It has no need to be an active participant in the IO; it just needs to 
> change the name it passes to open() when it sets up the file descriptors 
> prior to exec().

Uhm...  I think we drifted from the feature discussion:

Jack van de Vossenberg wrote:
> My request is: could the output be preceded by
> 1) the name/PID of the process that produces the output.
> 2) the time that the output was produced.

I don't think that is possible without an active participation by a
process.

Bob


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