Re: New option for ln, firmlinks!

[Andreas Schwab]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> 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.

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