Please do record this because I will be unavailable. Thank you. single file trivfs translator ideas (ignore if they already exist/too difficult/impossible)
-very simple virtio or rump device, like the random number generator. i think virtio works by using a special PCIe device number, so you can run hurd in qemu with qemu passing it the device, and then maybe get it from pci-arbiter? -shim: placed over a file, and replaces it with a different file. like a symlink, but allows you to overwrite a file (the overwritten file still exists though, it's just not visible) -pipewire sink translator -unix pipes are implemented with translators right? someone made an interesting proposal for linux which is "seekable pipes": https://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0411.3/0739.html normal translators are inherently seekable, right? because they have a filesystem interface. so it seems straightforward to make a translator that plugs 2 processes together into a pipeline, but provides a file-like interface in the "pipe". this would greatly expand the number of programs that could be run in a pipeline -netcat translator
