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Re: directory hard links
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: directory hard links
- From: Michael Schaap <cygwin at mscha dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:29:33 +0200
At 00:09 27-7-2001, Noel L Yap wrote:
>How can I create directory hard links?
You can't, AFAIK.
>The reason I want them is so that I can chroot to another directory where all
>but one of its subdirectories is the same as a corresponding one in root. The
>other directory will point elsewhere. For example:
>~/view/nyap/bin -> /bin
>~/view/nyap/etc -> /etc
>~/view/nyap/vobs -> /view/nyap/vobs
>
>so that when I "chroot ~/view/nyap" everything will look the way I want.
Why don't you use mount?
- Michael
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