From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A proposal regarding # in bind Message-Id: <20030225103233.2dd5eacd.martin@mca-ltd.com> In-Reply-To: <048301c2dc5d$05fcd480$0100000a@cc77109e> References: <3203694a344338d2aae59b328b9fe67a@vitanuova.com> <20030225083403.4dd20ea4.ggm@apnic.net> <048301c2dc5d$05fcd480$0100000a@cc77109e> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:32:33 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 717b5990-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:32:20 +1100 "Bruce Ellis" wrote: > Research Inferno has an "indirect driver" which provides > attach by name rather than magic rune. It's magic rune > is * and the mount spec is the name of the sought driver. > > '#*cons' is equivalent to '#c' > Ahh! It's rather funny that I didn't know that! > This makes scripts and startup code a lot easier to follow, > and ns files clearer. e.g. > > bind -a '#*kprof' /dev > > It also makes dynamically loadable device drivers with > autoallocated magic runes more manageable. Indeed! > brucee Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@mca-ltd.com Mission Critical Applications Ltd, U.K. http://www.mca-ltd.com