There's plenty of literature on the topic, but you can start with "A fork() in the road" [1] that explains why this Unix feature has long passed its best-by dat

There's plenty of literature on the topic, but you can start with "A fork() in the road" [1] that explains why this Unix feature has long passed its best-by date. Another good read is "Dot Dot Considered Harmful" [2]. There are other papers on features that have badly aged like signals for example, but I don't have them on hand. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/fork-hotos19.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0... [2] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/filesystems/dotdot https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/filesystems/dotdot