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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: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:32:20 +1100
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Research Inferno has an "indirect driver" which provides
attach by name rather than magic rune.  It's magic rune
is * and the mount spec is the name of the sought driver.

'#*cons' is equivalent to '#c'

This makes scripts and startup code a lot easier to follow,
and ns files clearer.  e.g.

    bind -a '#*kprof' /dev

It also makes dynamically loadable device drivers with
autoallocated magic runes more manageable.

brucee