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From: Russell Davies c9415019@lil...
Subject: [9fans] namespaces
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:22:04 +1100

I apologise if some of you see this twice, I posted to comp.os.plan9,
however my article still hasn't appeared (is there a moderation process?)

Here was my post, hopefully one of you can help.

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I have a (possibly inane) question regarding files and namespaces in
plan9. From my somewhat limited understanding of how everything fits
together, I'm a little confused about the following. Since every user has
a private conception of all resources the system provides (including
files) how does one communicate the location of a file to a colleague,
since they will more than likely have a different absolute path name
that represents the resource in question? To illustrate, How can I tell
a friend to obtain a copy of /a/b/c/d/file when he may not even have /a
in his 'private view' of the system? Or is there some restriction on
where one can 'bind' file trees?

thanks,
        r.
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