Re: New option for ln, firmlinks!

[Andreas Schwab]

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

> Well, can you do the something along the following with
> bind-mountpoints (using settrans to be clear):
>
> $ settrans -ac /new-root/etc /hurd/firmlink /etc
> $ chroot /new-root
> $ cat /etc/passwd
>
> And get the content of REAL-ROOT/etc/passwd for example?

Yes.  The binding is evaluated at mount-time.

Andreas.

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