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....distinct mount tables. In practice, the name spaces of the two windows will appear largely the same, but the possibility for different processes to see different files (hence services) under the same name is fundamental to the system, affecting the design of key programs such as the window system [Pike91]. The Plan 9 mount table is little more than an ordered list of pairs, mapping the fromfiles to the tofiles. For mounts, the tofile will be an item called a Channel, similar to a Unix vnode, pointing to the root of the file service, while for a bind it will be the Channel pointing to the tofile ....
Rob Pike, "8 1 /2 , the Plan 9 Window System", Proceedings of the Summer 1991 USENIX Conference , Nashville, 1991, pp. 257-265.
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