>>> "mount --bind" behaves like a hard link and it does not increment the link >>> count. > > # touch /tmp/a > # mount --bind /etc/passwd /tmp/a > # ls -l /etc/passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1990 2009-08-24 16:22 /etc/passwd > ... > Two references to the same inode, yet the link count is 1 and /proc is > nowhere in the picture. But, mount requires root (and root can do anything, including shooting himself in the foot). Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
