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another level of indirection

another level of indirection

Posted Jul 8, 2022 7:51 UTC (Fri) by rgb (subscriber, #57129)
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

You could probably make the same argument about almost any kernel feature: virtual memory, name spaces, virtual filesystem, snapshots, ...
“All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection." And each level of indirection creates another level of pain.
The alternative would be to still run on the bare metal writing assembly I guess.


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