What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <190 at dg.dg.com>, rec at 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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