[TUHS] Pipes (was Re: After 50 years, what has the Impact of Unix been?)

[Adam Thornton]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 8:20 AM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Unix pipelines, on the other hand, tend to be used in a manner that is
> strictly linear, without the fan-out and fan-in capabilities described
> by Morrison. Of course, nothing prevents one from building a
> Morrison-style "network" from Unix processes and pipes, though it's
> hard to see how that would work without something like `select`, which
> didn't yet exist in 1978. Regardless, Unix still doesn't expose a
> particularly convenient syntax for expressing these sorts of
> constructions at the shell.
>
>
Rick Troth has recently published xfl, which is pretty much CMS Pipelines
for Unix.

https://github.com/trothtech/xfl

He's got a slide deck on it at
http://www.casita.net/pub/xfl/pervasive-vmws-2024.pdf .

There are a lot of really cool things you can do with fanin/fanout.

Adam
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