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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: MPX files
Message-ID: <9936@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 13:28:34 GMT
References: <10945@brl-adm.ARPA> <9921@mimsy.UUCP> <3635@aw.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <3635@aw.sei.cmu.edu> pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) writes:
>I always thought the concept was rather neat.  You open a file, but it
>really isn't a file, it's a program that looks like a file....

Note that System V has these in the form of named pipes, and 4.3BSD
*should* have them in the form of bound AF_UNIX sockets, but does
not (yet).
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