The Linux "copy problem"

How people use those interfaces is something that needs guidance, always: you form a symbiotic loop in reliance on each other.

Conway's Law hasn't gone away and is implications about interacting with the users of your interfaces still stand. I think that Chris Mason's comment here is misguided and that we need to help people work together and communicate better. I think we need to balance this view of APIs with criticism of xattrs being difficult to copy and racy (with security implications).

K3n.