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masklinn
on July 22, 2022
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The trouble with symbolic links
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.
klodolph
on July 22, 2022
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Right, but there is no transactional view with or without symlinks.
masklinn
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Without symlinks it doesn't matter, because by definition a symlink race requires a symlink to be involved.
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