From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:23:13 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Fossil on devfs In-Reply-To: <20051122203732.177fdf16.20h@r-36.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3a9e2d37ee93d6a8d984ab82a00f9cbd@voidness.de> <20051122203732.177fdf16.20h@r-36.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b13c474c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 #k is outside the name space. It is always available. When we say bind -a #k /dev, now #k is bound on /dev and is available as /dev, as in /dev/fs/whatever. But #k/fs/whatever is always a valid name and requires no binds or anything else. Russ