[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels M�ller) writes: > There's no plans for anything like arexx-ports, that I know about. But > they could be implemented on the hurd using ipc (which for some reason > is usually called "rpc" on the Hurd), and it might be really cute. To > do it takes a few different things:
"IPC" means interprocess communication. In Mach, it specifically means the base-level IPC facility with Mach ports and messages. "RPC" means remote procedure call. In Mach, it's implemented by a pair of IPC messages (a request and then a reply).

