Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Why does link(2) not support hard-linking across bind mount points
> of the same underlying filesystem ?

Because it gives you a security boundary around a subtree.
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