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On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:02:59PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> What would a syntax look like which in your opinion does not remove
> totally valid symlink targets for magic mushroom bullshit? Prefix with
> // (which, according to POSIX, allows for implementation-defined
> behaviour)? Something else, not allowed in a regular pathname?

None.  just don't do it.  Use bindmount, they're cheap and have sane
defined semtantics.