On 11/19/08 17:41, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> Ok, I can understand why devproc.c does it: it is easy to discover the
>> name of the actual Chan if you know the node in /srv:
>>    fd = open("#s/stuff", OREAD);
>>    fd2chan(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
>>    close(fd);
>> but not the other way around. Buit why ns(1) doesn't have the above
>> code?
>>
>
> i assume that you mean fd2path.
Yes. Sorry -- clumsy fingers :-(

> i think the answer to your question is that it's a lot more useful
> to know that it's #s/boot rather than /net/il/0/data.
Really? Why? With /net/il/0/data you have an option of digging deeper and
finding out the other end's address, etc. Or to flip the question -- what
information does #s/boot provide?

> one cares more about what it does than the particulars of the
> connection.  the fact that #s/boot is the 0th il connection and
> not the nth wouldn't matter much unless you were debugging
> the ip stack.
>
> or is there some reason why this is interesting that i'm missing?
>
Well, to me knowing that mount came out of #s/stuff has never seemed to
be all that useful -- I can't imagine a question that this will answer.
So, unless
I am missing something I'd say it would be much more reasonable for ns(1)
to do that translation as much as it does translate /net/il/0/data into the
address of the remote end.

Once again -- this is a bit of an open-ended question: I just want to know
the experience of others and whether they find seeing #s/stuff useful
at all.

Thanks,
Roman.