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Date: Sat,  3 Jan 2009 21:12:35 -0800
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] directly opening Plan9 devices
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On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 23:21 +0100, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote:
> Usign #X means doing a mount (you are attaching to the root
> of the driver's tree).

You're right, of course. But it feels like a very special mount
if one can refer to files served by the drivers directly through:
'#X/bla-bla'.

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. The whole idea of letting such names be resolved feels
like a dreaded parallel namespace(s) madness from POSIX. Something
that has always tickled me the wrong way in Plan9.