An Example of Transparent Access

Consider an application requiring access to a file available on another machine.

  fd = open( "/home/uniwa/staff9/staff/00012349/linux/src/example.c", O_RDONLY, 0);

Here, the local operating system kernel recognized that the mount point, /home/uniwa/staff9, refers to a file system on a remote machine and a series of RPC requests are made to access the remote file.