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Re:The trouble with symbolic links by klodolph on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:11AM (#32190084)
Could you elaborate? Seems like there’s a bunch of things that can’t be batched together on an ordinary file, without involving symlinks.
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Re:The trouble with symbolic links by masklinn on Friday July 22, 2022 @08:47AM (#32191332)
What they (and TFA) are saying is that there is no transactional view of the FS. If you could work in “repeatable read” (only and always see the state of the FS before you started the transaction) symlink races wouldn’t be possible.
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Re:The trouble with symbolic links by klodolph on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:08AM (#32192726)
Right, but there is no transactional view with or without symlinks.
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Re:The trouble with symbolic links by masklinn on Friday July 22, 2022 @11:40AM (#32193160)
Without symlinks it doesn't matter, because by definition a symlink race requires a symlink to be involved.
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