Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-30 Thread cinap_lenrek
also note, you can still access these magic filenames in windows thru a unc path. like \\somemachine\someshare\path\to\magic\file\aux or when mapped as a dos drive: \\?\X:\path\to\magic\file\aux -- cinap

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-30 Thread Steve Simon
> I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). > I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. > Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not support nfs. > Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesystem, but for now its cifs. > Any n

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Daode
dexen deVries wrote: |On Wednesday 28 of August 2013 10:26:01 Erik Quanstrom wrote: |> the claim that the devices are in the directories and thus the file system |> is still false. even if explorer has some unnecessary code. and plan 9 is |> not immune from unnecessary weird bits e.g. the ex

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Daode
erik quanstrom wrote: |> > cifs is Windows, i think. |> > If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit |> > filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse |> > . | |as entertaining as this is, is isn't true for dos. there |are no device files on dos in *any* directory. they

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Ingo Krabbe
> > not sure why FAT32 would be relevant here, since he's using a linux > cifs server from an ext fs. samba mangles reserved names much as it > mangles long filenames -- check mangle_hash2.c for examples. when > samba is deciding if a filename needs to be mangled, it checks for > reserve

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
ybe. > > Ciao > > > > |cheers > > | > > |ingo krabbe > > > > --steffen > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Steffen Daode Nurpmeso > To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> > Cc: > Date: Wed,

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting dexen deVries : On Wednesday 28 of August 2013 10:26:01 Erik Quanstrom wrote: the claim that the devices are in the directories and thus the file system is still false. even if explorer has some unnecessary code. and plan 9 is not immune from unnecessary weird bits e.g. the export pro

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 28 of August 2013 10:26:01 Erik Quanstrom wrote: > the claim that the devices are in the directories and thus the file system > is still false. even if explorer has some unnecessary code. and plan 9 is > not immune from unnecessary weird bits e.g. the export protocol. a somewhat o

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Erik Quanstrom
the claim that the devices are in the directories and thus the file system is still false. even if explorer has some unnecessary code. and plan 9 is not immune from unnecessary weird bits e.g. the export protocol. - erik Kurt H Maier wrote: >Quoting erik quanstrom : > >>> > cifs is Windows

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Kurt H Maier
Quoting erik quanstrom : > cifs is Windows, i think. > If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit > filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse > . as entertaining as this is, is isn't true for dos. there are no device files on dos in *any* directory. they are a fiction of

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread erik quanstrom
> > cifs is Windows, i think. > > If this is the case, then you may run into the issue of implicit > > filenames. Search «aux tale», or browse > > . as entertaining as this is, is isn't true for dos. there are no device files on dos in *any* directory. they are a fiction of the executive. now

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Ingo Krabbe
> Ingo Krabbe wrote: > |Hey, > | > |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \ > |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \ > |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \ > |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another user

Re: [9fans] cifs fails on nodes named aux

2013-08-28 Thread Daode
Ingo Krabbe wrote: |Hey, | |I found a quite strange effect with cifs (plan9 bell labs edition). \ |I use cifs to mount werc installations from p9p linux servers. \ |Cifs is needed here, as the virtual hosted machine does not \ |support nfs. Maybe I should switch to another userspace filesyst