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Diffstat (limited to 'man/3/mnt')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/3/mnt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -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. |