Plan 9 Plumber

Created: 2020-09-06T19:11:14+00:00

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• Runs as a system service
• Lines of raw text are sent to the plumber
• Plumber tests a table of regular expressions against the text
• Whichever one matches gets to assign a command to it
• Plumber runs the command

Plumber can be thought of as a primitive, non-returning version of the Android Intents system.

Android Intents