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Of course; Didn't think of that in this context.

My application of symlinks involves overlaying several directories onto 
another, in an order such that any like named files are overridden in a 
defined way.

I had thought about asking the feasibility of [made up name] 
'transparent bindings' which would have this effect

Suppose I might as well ask now ;) Any takers?

Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:48:45 +0000
>>From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
> 
> 
>>Sorry for being dense, but what do you mean by 'bindings' ? Hard links?
> 
> 
> $ man mount
> 
>        Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the file  hierarchy
>        somewhere else. The call is
>               mount --bind olddir newdir
>        After this call the same contents is accessible in two places.
> 
> -- Pete
> 


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