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MNTGEN 4
NAME
mntgen - dynamically generate mount points
SYNOPSIS
"mount {mntgen} " dir
DESCRIPTION
Mntgen serves 9P on its standard input, providing a name space containing a single directory that is initially empty, but in which a subdirectory name appears when is first referenced, and remains only as long as it is needed (referenced). Mntgen is typically mounted on a directory dir using mount (see bind (1)) as above. Dir is commonly /n or /mnt , to generate mount points on demand for file systems or services.
SOURCE
/appl/cmd/mntgen.b
SEE ALSO
intro (1), bind (1), intro (5)