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authorforsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>2010-02-05 11:01:55 +0000
committerforsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>2010-02-05 11:01:55 +0000
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diff --git a/man/3/mnt b/man/3/mnt
index 7efc0c8d..55663b7c 100644
--- a/man/3/mnt
+++ b/man/3/mnt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.TH MNT 3
.SH NAME
-mnt \- attach to Styx servers
+mnt \- attach to 9P servers
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #M
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ is used by
see
.IR sys-bind (2))
to connect the name space of a process to
-the service provided by a Styx server over a communications channel.
+the service provided by a 9P server over a communications channel.
After the
.BR mount ,
file operations in that portion of the name space will
be converted by the mount driver into the appropriate
-Styx messages to the server, and its Styx replies returned
+9P messages to the server, and its 9P replies returned
as the status of the system calls.
.PP
Any authentication must precede
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ Each distinct user of a connection must mount it separately;
the mount driver multiplexes the access of the various users and their
processes to the service.
.PP
-File-oriented system calls are converted by the kernel into messages in the Styx protocol.
-Within the kernel, Styx is implemented by procedure calls to the
+File-oriented system calls are converted by the kernel into messages in the 9P protocol.
+Within the kernel, 9P is implemented by procedure calls to the
various kernel device drivers, as described in
.IR intro (10)
and
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ system call on a file served by the mount driver
may be translated
into more than one
message,
-since there is a maximum data size for a Styx message.
+since there is a maximum data size for a 9P message.
The system call
will return when the specified number of bytes have been transferred
or a short reply is returned.