On 6 March 2010 15:13, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you want to create some kind of redirected handle to the ctl file > first, then start a new block in rc. I believe this is how network > programming in rc can be accomplished in Inferno as well. Is this not > allowed in p9p? I've honestly not used the 9p commands too often.
the nearest you can get to it in p9p is something like: { echo -n 'addr=dot' 9p read acme/70/addr } | 9p write acme/70/ctl but there's no way of guaranteeing that the read takes place after the write - well, as a hack you can put a sleep in there, but that's not great...