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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:02:03 +0200
From: "Anselm R. Garbe" <garbeam@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: [9fans] 9P reading directory contents
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Hi there,

I'm currently implementing a complete 9P file/server stack from
scratch for Unix. I used to connect to acme fileserver for testing my
client implementation. But I ran into a question, which isn't answered
in the manual pages, concerning reading directory contents.

I established a valid connection to the acme server using Tversion,
and Tattach afterwards. Then I tryed two different ways to read the
root directory contents:

1) Topen with root fid and Tread with root fid

This worked as expected

2) Just Tread with root fid

This worked also the same, but I didn't expected that it is possible
to read directory contents without preparing the fid for I/O through
Topen.

Anyone can tell me if this is intended and why?

Regards,
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