On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:57:42PM +0000, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> >It now seems, that if your process has a read/write access to 
> >a channel capable of speaking 9P not letting it mount that
> >channel really doesn't accomplish much: whatever messages kernel 
> >would send on your behalf, you can send directly.
> 
> note that if a Chan has once been mounted it can no longer
> be read or written except through devmnt.

That's not much of a security guarantee since there's a race window when a
channel is first posted to '#s' (e.g.), but yes, it's better than nothing.

--nwf; 

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