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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:09:59 -0600
From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: [9fans] Dir->type & Dir->dev
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The main pages are a little unclear as to the convention for
assignment of dir->type & dir->dev, particularly with respect to
synthetic file servers.  For devices I gather that type is the device
id (ie. 'c' for cons) and that dev is the instance (ie. #I2 for an
alternate IP stack).  Their use seems a bit more slippery when
implementing user space file servers -- particular since type,dev,qid
must(?) be unique per namespace.  Is there a best practices convention
that folks follow or is this something which most ignore and we are
just lucky most of the time?

             -eric