Re: [9fans] 9p2010

[roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>]

2009/4/26 Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 18:53 +0100, roger peppe wrote:
>> i wonder how many things would break if plan 9 moved to
>> a strictly name-based mapping for its mount table...
>
> What exactly do you mean by *strictly* ?

i mean using pathnames rather
than using qids. "strictly" because a hybrid
approach may be possible.

doing this would mean that, for instance,

  bind -a /foo/bar /tmp/a
  mv /tmp/a /tmp/b
  ls -l /tmp/b

would not list the contents of /foo/bar.

what else might break?