From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 21:05:52 -0500
From: philw@plan9.research.att.com philw@plan9.research.att.com
Subject: bind vs pwd
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>From:	Philip Guenther <stolaf.edu!guenther>
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>>Given bind -c /usr/$user/tmp /tmp
>>if I cd to /usr/$user/tmp and then cd .., pwd says that I'm now in /.
>>I expected to be in /usr/$user.  Is that how it's supposed to work,
>>or am I all confused about something?
>
>bind is not like ln -s.  The bind command shown above makes /tmp into
>a union directory, containing the union of the previous contents of /tmp
>(probably nothing in this case), and the contents of /usr/$user/tmp.
>In addition, the -c flag specifies that files created in /tmp should
>*really* be created in /usr/$user/tmp.  This is critical here as /tmp
>is unwritable previous to this.
This is incorrect. The bind command is specified
as MREPL with no options. There is no union directory.
/usr/$user/tmp replaces /tmp.