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

Hi Al,

Al Viro <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:43:26PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>
>> Since nobody knows about this "security boundary" and everybody knows about
>> the annoying "can't link across bind-mountpoints bug",
>
> ... how about teaching people to RTFM?  Starting, perhaps, with man 2
> link?

Making people RTFM?  Are you trippin? ;)

But in the sense of providing mechanism not (only) policy, a mount
option for that behaviour would still be nice.

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