From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom floppy tape etc, media mount point From: rog@vitanuova.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:09:02 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cd9e3bda-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > If you make a directory mode 0777 they you have no say about what > silly users will put in it (or take out of it), but you can be sure > (by hypothesis) that you won't like it. That's why Plan 9 doesn't have > a world writable /tmp. oh i see. you are assuming, however, that /n is implemented on a file server. on some systems, i've seen it implemented as part of #/ (i.e. read only - requires a kernel build to add to it). i quite like the garbage-collected nature of autodir; between them /n and /mnt have 52 entries in them on this system and, checking in a rio window, only 7 are in use. being able to ls /n and see what mountpoints have been used in this session seems quite useful; and it means i'd feel no compunction about doing something like: for (i in $manyftpservers) { ftpfs -a me@home -m /n/ftp.$i $i } oh yes, autodir also means i don't have to worry about doing the mkdir first, which means i can just run the usual programs and they can blithely mount themselves. that's possibly its main advantage. cheers, rog.