pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) (12/22/87)
In article <9921@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >> mpx(2) > >Gone and good riddance! :-) Oh, I dunno...I always thought the concept was rather neat. You open a file, but it really isn't a file, it's a program that looks like a file.... I even had them working more-or-less right once under DEC's V7m Unix for the PDP-11. That is, until one day they just stopped working. I swear, I didn't change a thing! They just never worked again... :-) --Pat.
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (12/23/87)
In article <3635@aw.sei.cmu.edu> pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) writes: >I always thought the concept was rather neat. You open a file, but it >really isn't a file, it's a program that looks like a file.... Note that System V has these in the form of named pipes, and 4.3BSD *should* have them in the form of bound AF_UNIX sockets, but does not (yet). -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris