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ycmbntrthrwaway
on Nov 28, 2018
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Dot Dot Considered Harmful
What you describe is called "namespaces". Plan 9 and Linux have them already.
yiyus
on Nov 28, 2018
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In Plan 9, special measures were taken to get dot dot right, not so much because of private namespaces but because of bind.
http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/lexnames
cyphar
on Nov 29, 2018
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For those uninitiated to Plan9, binds are basically the replacement for symlinks (they're kind of like a mix of mount namespaces and bind mounts but more fundamentally baked into Plan9).
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