2008/10/20 erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > sounds very complicated. i'm not sure i understand.
Ok. I thought this was lately partially discussed here http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/thread/e8b5e25936f3aff1 even with your participation :), namely see your post followed by the post of Federico G. Benavento. Basically what I wanted was to: from any window be able to issue a simple command that would mount any (not known ahead) remote filesystem AND immediately after that see this filesystem in not only this window but also in ANY window already opened or to be yet opened. Through the trick mentioned (but not really explained; it took me a whole day and lots of frustration to start understanding what the trick really is --- the example there did not actually work for me as presented) in the link in F G Benavento's post I finally achieved the goal. All I need to say now is: srv the_filesystem sth local mount /srv/sth $home/shared/a_name and I have the filesystem immediatelly available under $home/shared/a_name everywhere (new, already opened window, acme...; CTRL-f/ins just completes the names...). (Not really that easy, now I have to use two more commands: the mount/unmount pair for authentication...) So that was my goal. (and while striding towards this end, I bumped into those 2 plumber commands which were not, as you explained, executed in order...) (also, since I want to be able to connect to any, not-known-ahead machine, I don't want to store any information; I want to use a login and a password) Ruda
