From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:13:12 -0700
From: James A. Robinson Jim.Robinson@Stanford.Edu
Subject: [9fans] namespaces
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> I apologise if some of you see this twice, I posted to comp.os.plan9,
> however my article still hasn't appeared (is there a moderation process?)

It seems like mail to the list gets sent to the newsgroup, but not vice
versa. Makes sense -- no spam this way!

> how does one communicate the location of a file to a colleague, since
> they will more than likely have a different absolute path name that
> represents the resource in question? To illustrate, How can I tell a
> friend to obtain a copy of /a/b/c/d/file when he may not even have /a
> in his 'private view' of the system? Or is there some restriction on
> where one can 'bind' file trees?

I don't have a full system, so I can't really test this out, but...
I had thought that most stuff mounted off the file server is going to
be visible the same way to everyone on a terminal.  Second, from what I
read, it looks like you could use 9p to automagically share whatever it
is you want to let your colleague use. So if you have terminal helix,
your colleague could type

	import helix /a/b/c/d/file /where/ever/he/wants/to/place/file


Jim