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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:29:33 +0200
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From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT com>
Subject: Re: directory hard links
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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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