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Subject: [9fans] afd in mount(2)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:45:40 +0900
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What's the difference of authentication scheme between release 3 and 4?
In release 3, if we can open connection to a file server, we don't need
authetication every time, and just call mount() without afd.

Why afd is neccessary in release 4's mount(2)?

Kenji