The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316

Posted Feb 17, 2022 12:52 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316 by foom
Parent article: The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316

> However, the downside is that they are not functional for command-line/cross platform programs, which don't use alias-aware file access apis.

But classic MacOS had no support for command-line apps which solved that problem.

The long road to a fix for CVE-2021-20316

Posted Feb 19, 2022 21:56 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

Classic macos did, kinda, have a shell, shell scripts, and command line apps, in MPW (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer's_Workshop). But that was just an app, not the fundamental underpinnings of the system.

(Of course modern macos does have both command line POSIX apps and aliases)