Permissions on names served by the kernel

[G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com]

Scott Schwartz <schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu> writes:
|"G. David Butler" <gdb@dbSystems.com> writes:
|| I don't mind answers like RTFM or, in this case, RTFSource, but the source
|| you pointed me to has to do with the srv server (I guess, the code is
|| very terse and there are *NO* comments.)  I'm not quite sure what it was
|| you wanted me get out of this.
|
|/srv (really #s) is a place to plant open file descriptors so that
|other processes can find them.  I think looking at the manpage srv(3)
|would be more helpful than the source in this case.
|

Ah, the light goes on... :-)

[This is what happens when one has 15+ years UNIX experience to unlearn.]

So, the srv registry is a global space for an instance of a Plan9 kernel!

I will finish my lp stuff now...

Thanks!

db