"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Howdy, > > The following hack implements the --firm/-m option for ln so that it > will create firm links. Now, most GNU/Linux people won't be familiar > with the concept, and I'm not really sure how to explain it either. > The best example I can think of that explains the difference between > symlinks and firmlinks is the following: > > hurd:/home/ams/coreutils/coreutils/src# ./ln -s /ams/foo symlink > hurd:/home/ams/coreutils/coreutils/src# ./ln -m /ams/foo firmlink > hurd:/home/ams/coreutils/coreutils/src# cd symlink > hurd:/home/ams/coreutils/coreutils/src/symlink# ls .. > foo hurd.obj lost+found oskit.obj sub-hurd > hurd:/home/ams/coreutils/coreutils/src/symlink# cd ../firmlink > hurd:/home/ams/coreutils/coreutils/src/firmlink# ls .. > CVS > Makefile > Makefile.am > [..snip...]
This looks similar to bind mounts in Linux. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd