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From: philw@pla... philw@pla...
Subject: Permissions on names served by the kernel
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 12:24:44 -0500

devsrv and #s is what I pointed to. It is a means of
publishing services between namespaces. #s can pass
a channel to either a pipe or file system by posting
a name in a global place. The code to post a channel
is in srv.c but I meant look at the device driver.
8½ and other file servers make themselves available
using this mechanism. Files posted in srv can also
be opened and acessed remotely via srv. From a cpu
connection look at /mnt/term/srv. If you look at
/rc/bin/window you can see it work.

phil