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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] file server design documentation
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IIRC, I think I wrote something about that in the 9.intro book.
But it's likely you already know all that's written there and you want
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On Dec 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, steve <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> hi,
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> I writing another non-disc file server after a gap of a few years
> and am making mistakes.
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> is there a written spec of how its supposed to work?
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> For example:
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> the initial stat of a zero length name should return the Dir
> of the root dir.
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> and a walk up to the root directory tells mount driver that
> you want to pass control back to the parent filesystem.
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> -Steve
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