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