The new mount API allows for the use of AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW when
opening a mount tree (aka the "mount source" for libmount).
As a result, you can now replace one symlink with another by using a
bind mount.
By default, the mount(8) command follows symlinks and canonicalizes
all paths. However, with the X-mount.nocanonicalize=source option, it
is possible to open the symlink itself. Similarly, with the
X-mount.nocanonicalize=target option, the path of the mount point can
be kept as the original symlink. (Using X-mount.nocanonicalize without
any argument works for both the "source" and "target".)
Example:
# file /mnt/test/symlinkA /mnt/test/symlinkB
/mnt/test/symlinkA: symbolic link to /mnt/test/fileA
/mnt/test/symlinkB: symbolic link to /mnt/test/fileB
The result is that 'symlinkB' is still a symlink, but it now points to
a different file.
This commit also modifies umount(8) because it does not work with
symlinks by default. The solution is to call umount2(UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW)
for symlinks after a failed regular umount(). For example: