9PSERVE(4)

NAME
9pserve - announce and multiplex 9P service

SYNOPSIS
9pserve [ -v ] addr

DESCRIPTION
On Plan 9, when a user-level file server mounts itself into a name space or posts itself in /srv, the Plan 9 kernel multiplexes the potentially many processes accessing the server into a single 9P conversation. The user-level server need not concern itself with how many processes are accessing it or with cleaning up after a process when it exits unexpectedly. On Unix, 9pserve takes the place of the Plan 9 kernel, multiplexing clients onto a single server conversation and cleaning up after clients when they hang up unexpectedly.

9pserve announces a 9P service on addr and multiplexes any 9P clients connecting to addr into a single conversation with a 9P server on 9pserve's standard input and output. When a client hangs up, 9pserve flushes any outstanding 9P transactions and clunks any outstanding fids belonging to the client.

9pserve is typically not invoked directly; use post9pservice(3) instead.

SEE ALSO
intro(4), intro(9p)

SOURCE
/src/cmd/9pserve.c