Pontus Lidman <pontus@lysator.liu.se> writes: > What are the special advantages of having a binary "mount" command instead > of a shell script that runs "settrans"? Having it as a shell script would > make some of the mechanisms of the Hurd file/directory hierarchy more > visible. Uh, it is a shell script. See hurd/utils/mount.sh in the Hurd source, or /bin/mount on a Hurd system.