The trouble with symbolic links

Posted Jul 21, 2022 17:50 UTC (Thu) by kdbotts (guest, #159822)
Parent article: The trouble with symbolic links

I understand there are races involving symlinks, and I sympathize with the concern. But I hope everybody bears in mind:

Symlinks have immense utility. They are essential and extremely valuable features of Linux and Unix, and have been for 40 years. Not just every distribution, but every deployment and pretty much every host intimately depend on symlinks. Breaking them is simply not an option. I find it hard to imagine a worse violation of "WE DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE!"