> Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:
>  |Hey,
>  |
>  |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \
>  |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \
>  |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \
>  |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesystem,\
>  | but for now its cifs.
>
> cifs is Windows, i think.
> If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit
> filenames.  Search «aux tale», or browse
> <heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html>.

Yes, cifs is used often to mount windows shares, but in this special case I just chose cifs, as NFS has no current user space server and I want to share some filesystems of a virtual host, where I can't add kernel modules.

So actually in my setup I use a Linux CIFS Server (aka. smbd, samba) and the cifs client from plan9.

The shared filesystem originally is a ext2 (or 3 or 4).

Should I really have managed to step over a system design bug that is imported from 1978 till now, through all systems and versions.

Actually, mounting the cifs with a linux mount -t cifs command maps the "aux" filename correctly. So the bug might just have been imported into the plan9 cifs client.

Funny bug.

>  [.]
>  |Any hints for debugging this might help.
>
> Maybe.
> Ciao
>
>  |cheers
>  |
>  |ingo krabbe
>
> --steffen

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdaoden@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: 
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 11:39:33 +0200
Subject: Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux
Ingo Krabbe <ikrabbe.ask@gmail.com> wrote:
 |Hey,
 |
 |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \
 |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \
 |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \
 |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesystem,\
 | but for now its cifs.

cifs is Windows, i think.
If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit
filenames.  Search «aux tale», or browse
<heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx_aux_c.html>.

 [.]
 |Any hints for debugging this might help.

Maybe.
Ciao

 |cheers
 |
 |ingo krabbe

--steffen