> I guess I'm trying to imagine how specifically you could pipeline, not the > general ways in which pipelining will fail with 9P.
Well.... as it turns out, I got inspired by the discussions of streaming and implemented one approach in Inferno on the plane on the way back home. Unfortunately, my laptop battery ran down before I could do much testing. If it works the way I hope, I'll be back with more details and do the same to Plan 9. So we can have multiple approaches to compare. BLS