On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:58:59AM +1000, Matthew Davidson wrote: > Funny; I've always assumed that the system treated a directory symlink > as a real directory that just happens to have exactly the same contents > as some other directory. I suppose I'd never put myself in a situation > to find out outherwise. > > However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work!
Sounds like what you really want is a hard link to a directory. This has never been allowed for various reasons, but has recently come up since reiser4 has the 'file as a directory' concept. For a nice overview (as always done by Jonathan Corbet) see http://lwn.net/Articles/99408/ But you might like to try a bind mount, in your previous example doing 'sudo mount --bind application/ version/0.3/' would give you the semantics you want (i.e. ls ../file will work). -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au
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