From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <68441caaf2cd49d4b09e2a114e75e910@mightycheese.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ftpfs From: "rob pike, esq." In-Reply-To: <200309151532.LAA27713@plg2.math.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:51:33 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37f85262-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> just got plan9 installed and i can't figure out how to get the namespace >> mounted on /n/ftp from the process/window that started it in acme into >> another window so i can use the mouse to traverse the file structures. > > Andrey is correct, but if you want to change the namespace for an > already-running instance of acme you can use the "Local" builtin -- > i.e., type "Local some_namespace_changing_command" in a tag and sweep > it with B2. Doing this won't affect instances of "win" that you're > already running, but it will affect new ones that you start. right. and clever uses of srvfs (see exportfs(4)) allow a name space created in one window visible in another. in your case, if the ftp is already going, you could run srvfs ftp /n/ftp in that window, then run mount /srv/ftp /n/ftp in another window or Local mount /srv/ftp /n/ftp in acme. -rob