Quotes of the week

Posted Jun 4, 2010 20:27 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by spender
Parent article: Quotes of the week

So it gets to be "Let's save programmers form making dumb mistakes by asking them _try_ the dumb mistake blindly and then do it right if the first try fails"... I don't see the logic behind this.

I'm with Al Viro here: The only solution that fixes all troublesome cases and doesn't litter the landscape with all sort of weird special cases is to forbid symlinks completely. That one hurts way too much. The sane solution is just to disallow hard links to outside {/var,}/tmp... i.e., a separate partition (even tmpfs!) or just mount it over itself. Problem gone, no strange special cases, any sane use for the above behavior still works, no kernel changes.