The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 7, 2022 14:54 UTC (Thu) by kees (subscriber, #27264)
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

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https://git.kernel.org/linus/dab741e0e02bd3c4f5e2e97be74b...

The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 8, 2022 1:10 UTC (Fri) by himi (subscriber, #340) [Link] (1 responses)

Damn . . . I scrolled down to the bottom of that changeset and was like "huh? where's the rest?" Is that literally all that's required to implement this properly?

The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 8, 2022 14:54 UTC (Fri) by harisphnx (subscriber, #139363) [Link]

An example of a good design?

The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 11, 2022 13:07 UTC (Mon) by scientes (guest, #83068) [Link]

This is what Sys 4 UNIX *didn't* do because they were too lazy to update all the binaries, and instead preferred to change the data structure through extension wihout thinking out the consequences. Nothing new.