Re: New option for ln, firmlinks!

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > 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.

Corking, maybe something like this could be added to libc when/if
firmlink() moves there and then make --firm work with that too.

Cheers!