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%T How to Make a Process Invisible
%A Neil C.C. Brown
%E Peter H. Welch, S. Stepney, F.A.C Polack, Frederick R. M. Barnes, Alistair A. McEwan, G. S. Stiles, Jan F. Broenink, Adam T. Sampson
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2008
%X Sometimes it is useful to be able to invisibly splice a
   process into a channel, allowing it to observe (log or
   present to a GUI) communications on the channel without
   breaking the synchronous communication semantics.
   occam\-π\[rs]s extended rendezvous when reading from
   a channel made this possible; the invisible process could
   keep the writer waiting until the real reader had accepted
   the forwarded communication. This breaks down when it is
   possible to have choice on outputs (also known as output
   guards). An extended rendezvous for writing to a channel
   fixes this aspect but in turn does not support choice on the
   input. It becomes impossible to keep your process invisible
   in all circumstances. This talk explains the problem, and
   proposes a radical new feature that would solve it.


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