[+coreutils ML] On 2/8/24 17:43, aotto wrote: > Hi, I write to you because of a suggestion from the "https://serverfault.com/"; Q&A side
you sent this to my personal email, so you're lucky this didn't land in spam. Hence I'm hereby forwarding to the coreutils mailing list. > subtract: add a "-m" switch to "ln" to support "mount -bind srcDir tgtDir" > > As reference please read: > > → https://serverfault.com/questions/1153146/improvement-add-new-switch-to-ln-called-m-to-link-a-directory-as-mount > > As original reference please read: > > → https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77954023/git-check-in-a-file-in-a-symlink-directory-fails/77960139#77960139 > > > mfg > > aotto ln(1) is the userland tool for the link/linkat system calls for hard links and for the symlink/synlinkat system calls for symbolic aka soft links. Both hard and soft links are persisted in the file system. mount(1)-ing is a completely different matter, because it tells the kernel to well, mount(2), one file system (or part of it) on another place, and this is gone when the system reboots. Therefore, I don't see any common point in this, and therefore adding such a functionality to ln(1) is the wrong thing to do. Have a nice day, Berny
