Re: [9fans] bind -c[ab] -- what am I doing wrong?

[David Presotto <presotto@closedmind.org>]

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The confusing part may be the implicit bind that happens
when you do

	bind -ca /sys/src/cmd $home/kern/cmd

The resulting mount point has to things in the link
list bound there:

	/sys/src/cmd	- containing the create flag
	$home/kern/cmd	- not containing the create flag

The latter is implicit since you were binding -a onto a
directory.  You would have gotten the semantics you
wanted if you had said instead:

	bind -c $home/kern/cmd $home/kern/cmd
	bind -ca /sys/src/cmd $home/kern/cmd

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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bind -c[ab] -- what am I doing wrong?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:18:22 +0200
Message-ID: <00b901c34c87$6d509780$b9844051@insultant.net>

union directories are a linked list.

    - open finds you the first file in the list bound directories,
      in the order they were bound [before/after]

    - create choose the first directory which allows creation,
      in the order they were bound [before/after]

the order they were bound is not temporal, it's where you bind them.

it's that easy.