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+[[license text="""
+Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
+terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version
+published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no
+Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license is included
+in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl.txt]].
+
+By contributing to this page, you agree to assign copyright for your
+contribution to the Free Software Foundation.  The Free Software Foundation
+promises to always use either a verbatim copying license or a free
+documentation license when publishing your contribution.  We grant you back all
+your rights under copyright, including the rights to copy, modify, and
+redistribute your contributions.
+"""]]
+
+Path names are resolved using a distributed protocol.
+No single entity is responsible for the resolution of
+path names.  A file system server (a [[translator]])
+attaches to translators (`fs.defs:file_set_translator`).
+
+When a process resolves an aboslute path, it queries
+its root file system server by invoking the `fs.defs:dir_lookup`
+method in the capability in its root directory slot.  The
+file system server resolves as much as it knows about locally
+and when it encounters a translator, it replies to the client
+indicating how much it resolved and where to continue its
+lookup.  This continues until the name is fully resolved
+or an error occurs.  The same happens for relative path
+names but a different capability is used.
+
+For a more detailed explanation of the protocol, look at the section
+2.2 of the [[critique]].