Re: [9fans] Ideas for an printer filesystem

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

No - that's would be adding a another clone interface to a driver that
has a clone interface.  I'll see if I can find the man page.

On Dec 12, 2007 12:30 AM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2007 4:54 AM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com> wrote:
> > i wrote a clonefs that changes a walk to the directory created for
> > the server to an attach  with ctl.  it saves a lot of replicated code.
> > i wonder what happened to it.  it's not too hard.
>
> i'm not quite sure what you mean here. do you mean something
> like a filesystem that layers over (for instance) /net, so doing
>
>    walk(net/tcp)
>
> actually does
>
>    id = open(/net/tcp/clone)
>    walk(/net/tcp/id)
>
> ?
>
> how do would you then open a file in the new directory
> wthout going doing the same thing (and hence writing
> to a different directory)?
>