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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Message-ID: <4485@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 Jun 89 02:03:22 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <4315@ficc.uu.net> <338@arc.UUCP> <190@dg.dg.com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <190@dg.dg.com>, rec@dg.dg.com (Robert Cousins) writes:
> Perhaps a better solution would be to use some special character to 
> signal a non-filesystem request to be passed to a another task.

> 	<specialcharacter><specialtaskadvertisedname>/<path>

This is exactly how AmigaDOS handlers work. The syntax is slightly different:

	<specialhandlername>:<path>

which really wouldn't fly in UNIX. The <specialhandlername> resolves into
a message port that accepts requests like "Open Old File", "Open New File",
"Read", and so on...
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Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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