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intro(1)

bind(1)

intro(5)

MNTGEN(4)

NAME

mntgen − dynamically generate mount points

SYNOPSIS

mount {mntgen} dir

DESCRIPTION

Mntgen serves 9P on its standard input, providing a name space containing a single directory that is initially empty, but in which a subdirectory name appears when is first referenced, and remains only as long as it is needed (referenced).  Mntgen is typically mounted on a directory dir using mount (see bind(1)) as above. Dir is commonly /n or /mnt, to generate mount points on demand for file systems or services. 

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/mntgen.b

SEE ALSO

intro(1), bind(1), intro(5)

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