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From: Will Rose cwr@cts.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: M device?
Date: 15 Mar 1999 21:29:28 GMT

Markus Friedl (Markus.Friedl@inf...) wrote:
: In <7cgbfs$r5a$1@nus...> Will Rose <cwr@cts.com> writes:

: > what's the M device? 
: > [...]
: > d-rwxrwxr-x M 3 sys sys     0 Jun 22  1997 /386

: the 'mount-device'. it multiplexes access to namespaces
: attached via bind/mount (see /lib/namespace, /bin/termrc),
: like sending 9fs RPCs to 'remote' servers.

: the character-to-device mapping can be found in
: /sys/src/9/port/master (-> /sys/src/9/port/devmnt.c).

Thanks - and it's in the man pages, too; mnt(3).  I don't know
how I missed it.


Will
cwr@cra...