> Taking a more direct implementation approach in our process model is,
> I feel, what also led to the current model of the open file descriptor
> table, a primitive mechanism which isn't even close to being abstract
> enough to allow one to do the really neat stuff, like break or insert
> things into existing pipe streams, redirect the source or sink in a
> stream after it's been established, etc. Such abilities would seem to
> be an only natural extention to Unix's traditional "give an engineer a
> flexible set of tools" philosophy, and maybe if people had thought a
> bit more about process migration back when BSD was getting its start,
> we'd at least have some of the nifty abstractions and mechanisms which
> lead up to the ability to migrate processes if not the actual
> ability. :-)
>
> - Jordan
Interesting. I had just become so accustomed to thinking that the ad hoc
nature of processes as being the only way for things to be.
-Kip
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