A fun exercise in re the design quality of the Linux kernel: How many lines of code do you think was the diff to add "-o nosymfollow" (ignore symlinks) as a mount option?

mozz@mbin.grits.dev · edit-2 9 months ago

A fun exercise in re the design quality of the Linux kernel: How many lines of code do you think was the diff to add "-o nosymfollow" (ignore symlinks) as a mount option?

The Octonaut@mander.xyz · 9 months ago

Yeah I get that but you dig deeper and that implantation was just throwing an error that needs to be handled elsewhere. The “real” code is what is handling that error.

But then we’re back to act acknowledging a meaningful point of having commits that do one thing and do it well and understandably, and I’m back to appreciating the difference between the kernel and our app.

A fun exercise in re the design quality of the Linux kernel: How many lines of code do you think was the diff to add "-o nosymfollow" (ignore symlinks) as a mount option?

A fun exercise in re the design quality of the Linux kernel: How many lines of code do you think was the diff to add "-o nosymfollow" (ignore symlinks) as a mount option?

Add a "nosymfollow" mount option. - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree