From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] namec() dislikes #M - why?
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:43:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADSkJJVD_yi85Yn3jK77=nNNTehmVzDvgunm9d9nYrr-pFAD3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c049a8101f29e1030943cb1ea6d72397@quintile.net>
#M is not a nameable device.
It is a pseudo-device representing mounted connections.
Instead of writing
bind -b #M123 /dev
You are supposed to write
mount -b /srv/whatever /dev
My memory is that the name space files use
the latter form unless the original name is gone.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-04 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 13:34 Steve Simon
2011-10-04 13:43 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2011-10-04 13:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 19:59 ` Yaroslav
2011-10-06 21:06 ` Steve Simon
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