Re: New option for ln, firmlinks!

[Andreas Schwab]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

>    You can also bind-mount a regular file (and probably other types, I
>    didn't try yet).  The only difference to firmlinks is, at it seems,
>    that the destination must already exist and it must be of the same
>    type as the source.
>
> Not entirerly true, the source and destination aren't the same in any
> way,

The last sentence above was attributed to bind mounts, not to firmlinks.

> Was it possible to jump out of a chroot with bind's?

Not sure what you mean.  A bind-mountpoint behaves like any other
mountpoint.

Andreas.

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