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someone the other day said something about pipes not composing well, which i vowed to contemplate on
anyway, while working on something i noticed a section in the 9front fqa where it mounts a subshell's standard output as a filesystem:
mount <{9660srv -s} /n/iso /path/to/9front.iso
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@dogstar pipes are one of my favorite abstractions honestly. is <{} equivalent to <() in bash? my intuition says yes, but i've yet to use this construct in my rc programs out of fear of the unknown.
@xj9 in as much as it's redirecting input from a subshell, it is - i don't really know the actual mechanics of how each works
@csepp i haven't! excited to read
(so i mean, technically it is taking a subshell that is acting as a fileserver and presenting it within the current namespace, rather than having an entire iso live in memory for random reading access between processes - still the composability is blowing my mind)
@ed you may find this an intriguing example of namespace usage