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Subject: Re: Not using Symbolic links correctly?
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[Context lost to top posting.]

Totally Jayyness <Jayyness@mindspring.com> types:
> Found this... don't think I can do what I want with ln
> "Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file
> systems."
> 
> Can I mount a mount point in a second place?

No. If it says "normally", you may want to try the attached program,
but it may not work either. If you're going across file systems, hard
links can't be used at all.

You might consider turning things around, and put the files in your
chroot'ed area then make /mp3s a link to that.

	<mike

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/* C program to make a link, no excuses */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

main(int argc, char **argv) {

  if (argc != 3) {
    fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s source dest\n", argv[0]) ;
    return 10 ;
  }
  if (link(argv[1], argv[2])) {
    perror(argv[0]) ;
    return 10 ;
  }
  return 0 ;
}

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