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Subject: Re: [9fans] namec() dislikes #M - why?
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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#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