export - export name space on a connection export [ -a ] dir [ file ] Export calls sys-export (2) to serve the name space rooted at dir over a connection to a 9P (Styx) client. Export opens the connection on the given file , or uses the standard input by default. It returns when the client closes the connection. If the -a option is given, however, export starts an Inferno kernel process to serve the name space and returns immediately. Export serves the current name space without forking it; changes made to it will be visible to clients.

Export starts serving 9P immediately; it assumes that the connection has been authenticated if required. Export is typically called via listen (1), which can authenticate the connection.

Start a background process to serve the name space on the serial port. "export / /dev/eia0 &"

Although useful when bootstrapping a system, this is unsafe unless a transport protocol is run on the connection.

/appl/cmd/export.b cpu (1), listen (1), dial (2), sys-export (2), intro (5)