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From: avr@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (adam.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: programmatic devices
Summary: stream modules
Message-ID: <3062@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 89 17:46:29 GMT
References: <10641@ucsd.Edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <10641@ucsd.Edu>, brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
> A programmatic device (pdev) is a program (an executable binary) living
> in the /dev directory.  When a user program tries to open it for
> reading or writing, a process is started that runs the program, and
....
> Oh, and if this isn't an original idea, pardon me.  I honestly can't
> remember having heard of this before in the Unix world.  (It is vaguely

This looks (except for some ad-hoc details) like a trivial
instance of a stream device with a single stream module.
Why write if you can buy?
				Adam_V_Reed@ATT.com