From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 12:29:16 -0500 From: G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com Subject: Permissions on names served by the kernel Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3948b368-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19951227172916.76j3ZFvGrtq-lPComP017rSGos8DrtaIAbbiJ2qsQjU@z> Scott Schwartz writes: |"G. David Butler" 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