The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 7, 2022 16:09 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)
In reply to: The trouble with symbolic links by khim
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

I guess the disparity here is how many apps you think really needs to care. Most that I use certainly don't. File servers (including Apache) are a notable exception.

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The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 8, 2022 8:57 UTC (Fri) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link] (2 responses)

"File servers (including Apache) are a notable exception."

That's quite a large notable exception!

The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 9, 2022 0:47 UTC (Sat) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

If you're NetApp, sure. But if you consider desktop (or phone) usage of Linux, it's a small and uninteresting exception.

The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 23, 2022 0:17 UTC (Sat) by DimeCadmium (subscriber, #157243) [Link]

They're also already large projects in and of themselves. Handling symlinks is still ultimately a very minor portion of the code.