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BIND(2)                       System Calls Manual                      BIND(2)



NAME
       bind, mount, unmount - change name space

SYNOPSIS
       #include <u.h>
       #include <libc.h>

       int bind(char *name, char *old, int flag)

       int mount(int fd, int afd, char *old, int flag, char *aname)

       int unmount(char *name, char *old)

DESCRIPTION
       Bind  and  mount  modify the file name space of the current process and
       other processes in its name space group (see fork(2)).  For both calls,
       old  is  the  name of an existing file or directory in the current name
       space where the modification is to be made.  The name old is  evaluated
       as  described in intro(2), except that no translation of the final path
       element is done.

       For bind, name is the name of another (or possibly the  same)  existing
       file  or  directory in the current name space.  After a successful bind
       call, the file name old is an alias for the object originally named  by
       name;  if  the modification doesn't hide it, name will also still refer
       to its original file.  The evaluation of new happens at the time of the
       bind, not when the binding is later used.

       The  fd  argument to mount is a file descriptor of an open network con‐
       nection or pipe to a file server, while afd is  a  authentication  file
       descriptor  as  created by fauth(2) and subsequently authenticated.  If
       authentication is not required, afd should be -1.  The old file must be
       a directory.  After a successful mount the file tree served (see below)
       by fd will be visible with its root directory having name old.

       The flag controls details of the modification made to the  name  space.
       In the following, new refers to the file as defined by name or the root
       directory served by fd.  Either both old and new files must be directo‐
       ries, or both must not be directories.  Flag can be one of:

       MREPL  Replace  the old file by the new one.  Henceforth, an evaluation
              of old will be translated to the new file.  If they are directo‐
              ries  (for mount, this condition is true by definition), old be‐
              comes a union directory consisting of  one  directory  (the  new
              file).

       MBEFORE
              Both  the  old  and new files must be directories.  Add the con‐
              stituent files of the new directory to the  union  directory  at
              old so its contents appear first in the union.  After an MBEFORE
              bind or mount, the new directory will  be  searched  first  when
              evaluating file names in the union directory.

       MAFTER Like MBEFORE but the new directory goes at the end of the union.

       The  flags  are  defined in <libc.h>.  In addition, there is an MCREATE
       flag that can be OR'd with any of the above.  When a create system call
       (see  open(2))  attempts  to  create in a union directory, and the file
       does not exist, the elements of the union are searched in  order  until
       one  is found with MCREATE set.  The file is created in that directory;
       if that attempt fails, the create fails.

       Finally, the MCACHE flag, valid for mount only, turns  on  caching  for
       files  made  available by the mount.  By default, file contents are al‐
       ways retrieved from the server.  With caching enabled, the  kernel  may
       instead  use a local cache to satisfy read(5) requests for files acces‐
       sible through this mount point.  The currency of cached data for a file
       is verified at each open(5) of the file from this client machine.

       With mount, the file descriptor fd must be open for reading and writing
       and prepared to respond to 9P messages  (see  Section  5).   After  the
       mount,  the  file tree starting at old is served by a kernel mnt(3) de‐
       vice.  That device will turn operations in the tree  into  messages  on
       fd.   Aname  selects among different file trees on the server; the null
       string chooses the default tree.

       The file descriptor fd is automatically closed by  a  successful  mount
       call.

       The  effects  of  bind  and mount can be undone by unmount.  If name is
       zero, everything bound to or mounted upon old is unbound or  unmounted.
       If  name  is not zero, it is evaluated as described above for bind, and
       the effect of binding or mounting that particular result on old is  un‐
       done.

SOURCE
       /sys/src/libc/9syscall

SEE ALSO
       bind(1),  intro(2),  fcall(2), auth(2) (particularly amount), intro(5),
       mnt(3), srv(3)

DIAGNOSTICS
       The return value is a positive integer (a unique sequence  number)  for
       success, -1 for failure.  These routines set errstr.

BUGS
       Mount  will  not  return until it has successfully attached to the file
       server, so the process doing a mount cannot be the one serving.



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