On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:21 AM,  <kokam...@hera.eonet.ne.jp> wrote:
> I downloaded Plan9port today, and found thewre is no pipefile.
> It's not good to me, because I need ktrans.☺
>
> Is it difficult to implement REGEND for p9p's rfork?
> Or anything other difficulties are there for pipefile.c?

I think the main difficulty with pipefile is that
there is no /dev/cons for it to sit on top of.
You can't just replace /dev/tty on Unix the way
you can replace /dev/cons.  You'd have to set
up another pseudo-tty and pass parameters
through, etc.  It's a much tougher job on Unix.

Russ

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