Make directory junction (symlink) equivalent to mklink /j

I am developing a web application with php in windows environment and I am using symlink to avoid redundancy. I made the symlinks with mklink /j command using exec(). Today I decided to test the app in linux and I used 'ln -s' command. But the app malfunctioned and can't find files correctly. So what is the equivalent of directory junctions in linux?

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NTFS has symbolic links which work exactly as Unix symbolic links, but mklink /j creates a junction point, not a symbolic link.

An NTFS junction is much more similar to a Unix mountpoint, and it is actually represented as a mountpoint internally. Use mount --bind in Linux to emulate the behavior of an NTFS junction.

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