Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010727002905.02b2e830@imap.local.mscha.com> X-Sender: ml@imap.local.mscha.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:29:33 +0200 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Michael Schaap Subject: Re: directory hard links In-Reply-To: <85256A95.0079C154.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: at mscha.org by amavisd-milter snapshot-20010714 (http://amavis.org/) 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 -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/