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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:50:56 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 'stuck' windows.
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> Just FYI, you are mucking around in one of the
> least satisfactory parts of the system: dossrv, 9660srv, etc.
> The fact that they interpret the mount spec as a file name
> in their own name space means that if you already have
> dossrv running in one window and do
>
> 	import othermachine /dev/sdC0
> 	mount /srv/dos /n/other /dev/sdC0/dos
>
> dossrv doesn't see othermachine's disks.

Could a wrapper around mount open /dev/sdC0/dos, post the fd
to /srv, and then pass the /srv pathname as the spec?

Dave Eckhardt