--On Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:33 AM -0500 leam <leam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you're in a link, some will see the linked directory, some will see the linked to directory. So if you made a link of /tmp to /home/tmp, some programs might see you in /tmp, some in /home/tmp which is often not what you want. :) loopbacks avoid this.
Aha! Thanks, I couldn't remember why symlinks were sometimes the Wrong Solution. It can be tricky traversing rootwards (ie. "..") through a symlink, as some things follow the linked-from path and some follow the linked-to path. Not a good thing for such an important system directory. Mount points are unambiguous.
