From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A proposal regarding # in bind From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:02:53 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 732be6c4-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 like i said, there's plenty to be thought through. right now devmnt is the special case. there may be merit to turning things around so that devmnt is not a special case (it's not clear devmnt would exist at all as a driver) and devsrv and devfs are. maybe those special cases wouldn't be exportable, which seems reasonable. it certainly seems like a bug that you can do: srvfs foo / mount /srv/foo /n/kremvax echo 0 >/n/kremvax/srv/foo0 echo hello world >>/n/kremvax/srv/foo0 to completely screw up exportfs's file service. another student and i at mit may walk further down this path in a few months. i also think that a good 9p mux is the right way to build drawterm, so it looks like we're going to try that first.