The simple fact that a remote connection to a #Plan9 host mounts the working directory on the remote host is such a big deal in practice. It surprises me that #Unix/#Linux doesn't have such a thing "by default", particularly given that modern Unix systems support 9p and local namespaces.

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Having not used plan9 -- can you explain what you mean in more detail?

When I want to have a cwd across sessions and especially come to mind -- I assume what you are talking about is unlike these things but its hard to imagine how exactly.

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@lorendias Assume that I have two computers: my desktop and a remote host called remote. From my desktop, I open a terminal and run `rcpu -h remote`. This "logs me in" (like using ssh) to the remote host. At that terminal on remote, the path /mnt/term is a filesystem provided by the terminal window on my desktop. The files from the current working directory on my desktop when I ran rcpu are available there as "local files" on the remote host.

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