Inferno's /Plan 9/9SRVFS(4)

NAME

9srvfs - add Inferno service to Plan 9 service registry

SYNOPSIS

9srvfs [ -p perm ] srvname source

DESCRIPTION

9srvfs is only usable (or indeed of interest) on Inferno hosted under Plan 9. It uses srv9(3) to make an Inferno service source available to Plan 9 applications via the Plan 9 service registry. Srv9 (3) must previously have been bound to /srv in the current name space, with -c to allow file creation (see bind(1)).

Source may be either a command or the name of a directory. If source is surrounded by braces ({ and }), it is invoked as a sh(1) command, and its standard input (sic) is posted as Plan 9 service /srv/srvname with permissions perm (default: mode 600). Otherwise, source is taken to be a directory that is the root of a name space to export to Plan 9, an exporting file service is started (see sys-export(2)), and again posted as Plan 9 service /srv/srvname, and the export terminates when the Plan 9 service file has been removed and the last mounted instance goes away in Plan 9.

EXAMPLE

Make the current Inferno environment variables available to Plan 9 applications:

bind -c '#₪' /srv   # if not already done
9srvfs infenv /env

The name space can then be mounted in Plan 9, allowing variables to be read and written in that Inferno environment:

mount -c /srv/infenv /n/ftp
ls /n/ftp
cat /n/ftp/emuargs
echo masked man >/n/ftp/zorro

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/9srvfs.b

SEE ALSO

bind(1), srv9(3), import(4)

/man/4/9srvfs(4)

Rev: Thu Feb 15 14:43:41 GMT 2007