What's the point of chrooting if you hardlink the files?

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:14:29PM +1100, Stalker, Doug wrote:
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> From: Andre Pang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, 27 February 2003 3:55 PM
> To: Stalker, Doug
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> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Creating hard Links to directories]
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> > Forgive me if this question has been answered already, but why not just 
> > create a symbolic link to the directory instead of a hard link?
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> I'm creating an environment to use with chroot.  Symbolic links won't work
> if they lead to things outside the chroot environment, since what they refer
> to does not exist within the chroot context.  (If anyone knows otherwise,
> please let me know)
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>  - Doug
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