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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] a curiosity
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:10:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7488db20ca6e4310a8117bc556b92af0@caldo.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76a2636b1534a8c8bf30bdda3eb5514f@hamnavoe.com>

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it walks each element of the union, dns is at the back,
and it puts dns: in front of its Rerror replies.

/mnt/foo's diagnostic is (in a similar way) factotum

/srv is devsrv.c's (and the kernel's Enoent)

directory entry not found is the file server

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From: Richard Miller <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] a curiosity
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:20:09 0000
Message-ID: <76a2636b1534a8c8bf30bdda3eb5514f@hamnavoe.com>

term% grep x /tmp/foo /mnt/foo /srv/foo /net/foo
grep: can't open /tmp/foo: '/tmp/foo' directory entry not found
grep: can't open /mnt/foo: '/mnt/foo' not found
grep: can't open /srv/foo: '/srv/foo' file does not exist
grep: can't open /net/foo: '/net/foo' dns: file does not exist

The last one is particularly mysterious ...

-- Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-13 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-13 21:20 Richard Miller
2003-11-13 22:10 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2003-11-13 23:40   ` rog
2003-11-13 23:40     ` mirtchov
2003-11-14  7:21       ` boyd, rounin

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