From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:14:13 +0000 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: <1226360745.17713.333.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3a4fad50-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >But wouldn't you agree that files kept on a remote POSIX file system is >an important and common class of remotes resources for which we don't >quite have a consensus on how to use 9P? yes, but both your examples are things of purely local significance. the symbolic links point to something local (or not), and the major/minor numbers are decidedly only local (since they index a kernel's data structures!). so: access the things they refer to. sorry, to which they refer.