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From: "Bruce Ellis" <brucee@chunder.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A proposal regarding # in bind
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:04:00 +1100
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> How do you get an attach name to an underlying device attached
> through '#*' when you are using the attach name to
> identify the device?

The Research Inferno devindir uses the syntax:

    name [ ! spec ]

So ...

    #*cons  == #c
    #*ether!0 == #l0
    #*ip!1 == #I1
    #*srv!auth == #sauth

etc. Note that the driver is very simple. The only code involved is
in indirattach() which smashes the spec, scrounges thru devtab,
and calls the appropriate attach.  Nothing else was changed.

brucee