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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Symbolic links vs. generalized mount
Message-ID: <6381@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 02:47:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 02:47:38 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3711@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz> neilb@elecvax.eecs.unsw.oz (Neil F. Brown) writes:
>The generalised mount.

I support the notion that a generalized "mount" would be better than
symbolic links for most purposes.  I'd like to observe that there are
two general approaches to this, one that is system-wide and the other
that is per-process (and inherited).  The latter is more useful but
would take much more work to implement and has much farther-reaching
ramifications.  Therefore the first approach is probably what we
should push for as a modification to current systems.