The mount() and bind() syscalls return -1 on error,
and the mountid sequence number on success.
The manpage states that the mountid sequence number
is a positive integer, but the kernels implementation
currently uses a unsigned 32-bit integer and does not
guarantee that the mountid will not become negative.
Most code just cares about the error, so test for
the -1 error value only.
the root fileserver is mounted with the mount cache enabled
causing the contents of the cfsctl file to be cached as well
leading to wrong results. so after we generated the new stat
buffer, we increment the qid.vers so the cache starts out
clean.
when we get eof, stop the loop immidiately and do not
rely on the read to eventually return an error.
when convM2S() fails to decode the message, error out
and stop the loop. there is no point in continuing.