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There are other problems with symlinks too: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks Every command that operates o
by uriel 15y ago
There are other problems with symlinks too: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks
Every command that operates on files needs an extra flag to tell it whatever it should follow symlinks, or operate on the target, or on the symlink itself, etc.
- mansr 15y agoOnly commands capable of doing something meaningful with symlinks need such a flag. These are a minority.
- uriel 15y agoAny program that manipulates or traverses file trees is affected, and a few more, in an OS that is built around the concept of hierarchical file systems, this is quite a few.