On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 19:55:10 -0800
ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote:

> a few years back, there was a 9p server (or servers) that, for $REASONS$,
> would rewrite QIDs as part of supporting Twalk.
> 
> If this seems familiar to you, let me know.
> 

exportfs, see io.c:419/^uniqueqid

this is because while a qid is defined as unique within
a file server, it may be (and often is) reused across
them; see, for example, enum { Qroot, Qdir, Qthing} in
many many devices and file servers.

-- 
Ori Bernstein <[email protected]>

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