Re:Can we get the benefits of transitive dependencies withou...
by yencabulator on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @06:04PM
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Moving out of the world of "applications" into shell commands, we're gonna need a new shell that understands that `wget -o myfile https://example.com` needs to be handed a capability to write data, or we need change our habits a lot into always shuffling everything over pipes or such. In either scenario, if you want that level of granularity, I don't think UNIX will survive as we remember it.
(More likely path for now: start a new sandbox, run things in it, put result files in an "outbox", quit sandbox, consume files from outbox. Also not very convenient with current tools.)
(More likely path for now: start a new sandbox, run things in it, put result files in an "outbox", quit sandbox, consume files from outbox. Also not very convenient with current tools.)