Re: The primitiveness of pipe

[Steven M Rezsutek <steve@baloo.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Harald sez:

> I understand that new feature requests are particularly unwelcome at
> this time, but I just can't resist...

> I would dearly have loved to have direct access to:  Namely pipe(2).
> Imagine we had such a primitive, let's call it $&pipe2 so we don't
> [...]
> But we could also do all sorts of things you can usually not do in
> other shells, like open a file descriptor in the current shell which
> [...] 
> Just an idea.  Let it simmer on the back burner.  It doesn't worry me
> if it has to wait until after v.1.0.
> 

Hmm, I can't resist either... 

Why stop there?  If es had $&socket, I could purge perl from the disk.
One small feature for es, one giant bloat-purge for the system as a 
whole.  After all, the network is the computer. ;-) Es could be the 
first network shell...

OK. Sorry to subject everyone to brain-jello.  Apply smilies liberally.

Steve