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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:55:28 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] P9p's mount(1) on linux
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> The ability to mount file descriptors has been in for a few years (at
> least since 2006).  trans=fd allows you to mount from a file
> descriptor (or from separate read and write file descriptors).  The
> code should be functional, but it is not something which currently
> gets regressed very often.

yep. rangboom agent uses v9fs this way for the imported shared ns:

	opts = smprint("noextend,%smsize=%d,name=%s,proto=fd,rfdno=%d,wfdno=%d",
			(ifsdebug?"debug=0x7,":""), 8*1024, getenv("USER"), so[1], so[1]);