The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 7, 2022 22:43 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The trouble with symbolic links by willy
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

It all comes down to the original sin: the ability of less-privileged programs to dictate the worldview of more privileged programs.

This is fixable (Android, macOS, Windows, some Linux distributions are trying to fix that) but I wonder how much time would it take. Years? Decades?