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Subject: Re: [9fans] simple questions on bind semantics
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:23:44 -0600
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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>   mntgen seems new to me (I could bet it wasn't part of the 
>   Plan 9 release 3, but may be I've just overlooked it)
> 

nemo wrote mntgen sometime around the initial 4e...

>   Anyway, is this how one accomplishes what I was trying 
>   to do (bind /existing-file /non-existing-file):

whenever i run into that problem i use ramfs, or i bind /tmp if
i don't care that someone may see the changes to the file.

hth: andrey