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Path traversal vulnerabilities. Special casing everywhere. Mixup of parsing and data access.
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how would you have solved the problems they solve? (Interestingly, the UNIX Haters Handbook doesn't mentioned this in the slightest!)
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Syscall for "get parent directory". Those things are taking the file metaphor too far.
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Back in the days, people sure found that ingenious.
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Thinking about that, it sure wouldn't be the problem it is today, if - .dotfiles just wouldn't be .dotfiles - MS hadn't come out with 8.3
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...trading special cases in the kernel for special cases in userland.
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