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The trouble with symbolic links

The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 7, 2022 17:38 UTC (Thu) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)
In reply to: The trouble with symbolic links by nix
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

At least in theory libc could be doing all that. However it would also be much slower and wasteful, because all the caching that the kernel does would be split across multiple userspace programs, and the cache would start cold for every new process.

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The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Sep 3, 2022 11:56 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

In theory libc could implement its own cross-process cache using shared memory, like nscd. In practice, the mere thought is painful. This is definitely not userspace's job :)


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