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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:19:53 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] interaction of net.alt and factotum
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> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:00:33PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
> > Is there a way to hook into the napespace of factotum (I beleive there was a kernel
> > patch to make /proc/??/ns writable which should do it but I was hoping for a solution
> > that just used "a clever plan9 trick"
>
> I needed read access to this namespace and so bound an exportfs in /srv as
> one of the last lines of cpurc.  You could spawn an agent which was prepared
> to receive, over a /srv pipe, the name of a /srv pipe and mount it over
> /net.alt.  Note that this trick clutters /srv fast, but if you only need to
> apply it once...

factotum is started by the boot process before
cpurc.

- erik