9import.4 (1364B)
1 .TH 9IMPORT 4 2 .SH NAME 3 9import \- import a name space from a remote system 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B 9import 6 [ 7 .I options 8 ] 9 .I system 10 .I file 11 [ 12 .I mountpoint 13 ] 14 .SH DESCRIPTION 15 The 16 .I 9import 17 tool allows an arbitrary 18 .I file 19 on a remote 20 .I system, 21 with the capability of running the Plan 9 22 .MR exportfs (4) 23 service, 24 to be imported into the local name space. 25 Usually 26 .I file 27 is a directory, so the complete 28 file tree under the directory is made available. 29 .PP 30 A process is started on the 31 remote machine, with authority of the user of 32 .IR 9import , 33 to perform work for the local machine using the 34 .MR exportfs (4) 35 service. 36 The default port used is TCP 17007. 37 If 38 .I mountpoint 39 is omitted, then 40 .I 9import 41 uses the name of the remote 42 .I file 43 as the local mount point. 44 .PP 45 The options are: 46 .TF "-s namexxx" 47 .PD 48 .TP 49 .B -A 50 Skip the authentication protocol. 51 This is useful for connecting to foreign systems like Inferno. 52 .TP 53 .B -k \fIkeypattern 54 Use 55 .I keypattern 56 to select a key to authenticate to the remote side 57 (see 58 .MR auth (2) ). 59 .TP 60 .B -p 61 Push the 62 .MR aan (8) 63 filter onto the connection to protect against 64 temporary network outages. 65 .TP 66 .B -s \fIname 67 Post the connection's mountable file descriptor as 68 .BI /srv/ name\fR. 69 .SH SOURCE 70 .B \*9/src/cmd/9import.c 71 .SH SEE ALSO 72 .MR srv (4) , 73 .MR aan (8) , 74 .MR listen1 (8) , 75 .B cs 76 in 77 .MR ndb (7) 78 .SH BUGS 79 Encryption is not implemented.