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SKELFS(4)SKELFS(4)

NAME

skelfs – build directory skeletons

SYNOPSIS

skelfs [ -i ] [ -t mode ] [ -s service ] [ mnt ]

DESCRIPTION

Skelfs generates directory skeletons to assist in building namespaces. Skeletons are generated on demand by walking through the root directory. A skeleon is a directory containing a single empty child. The name of this child is defined by the first walk taken away from the root. For example the hierarchy for a skeleton named ’echo’ would be:

	/
	/echo/
	/echo/echo

The mode dictates what form the innermost child file takes. The file and dir modes cause the child to be an empty file or directory respecively. The empty mode instead serves no skeletons, causing the root directory to always be empty. A client may override the mode by providing its own selection as an attach option. If a mode is not provided, file is assumed.

The skeletons generated by skelfs are anonmyous. Clients will never see the skeletons of other clients, nor can a client revisit a previous skeleton.

SEE ALSO

auth/box in auth(8).

SOURCE

/sys/src/cmd/skelfs.c