[TUHS] First appearance of named pipes

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Sun Mar 8 23:07:42 AEST 2020


Hi Larry,

> Did Plan 9 make it sane?  If so, care to say how or point me at something
> like Masscomp's introduction to network programming?

There's Plan 9's dial(2) and friends.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/dial
The ctl file of a connection takes commands like ‘hangup’.
http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/3/ip

The idea of dial() just doing the right thing lives on with Go's
https://golang.org/pkg/net/#pkg-overview

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.


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