From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Dir->type & Dir->dev
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:26:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4e6962a0811300826m18589dd9ia924d71c38b24950@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a2be9d78c2e736fb1319f7dd41b765c@quanstro.net>
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:18 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> there is a dir.type and a dir.qid.type. i believe these are different.
> the comment above dir.type in /sys/include/libc.h says that it's
> system modified. and, e.g. /mail/fs shows up as from the mount
> driver. the instance is typically pretty big. the mount driver is
> pretty careful to count instances.
>
> ; ls -l /mail/fs
> --rw-rw-rw- M 105920 quanstro quanstro 0 Nov 30 10:17 /mail/fs/ctl
> d-r-xr-xr-x M 105920 quanstro quanstro 0 Nov 30 10:11 /mail/fs/mbox
>
That makes sense - any user space synthetic will have to be addressed
via mnt(3), so mnt(3) will assign/override type and instance data for
user space file servers as well as remote file servers. Thanks.
-eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-30 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-30 15:09 Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-11-30 15:18 ` erik quanstrom
2008-11-30 16:26 ` Eric Van Hensbergen [this message]
2008-11-30 19:07 ` Charles Forsyth
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