Post #1841254

It could be improved. Sebastian Wick and Lennart Poettering made comments on how hard POSIX makes it to be secure. There are better APIs that try to be safer, but still, those APIs are using POSIX too and can have issues. blog.sebastianwick.net/…/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a… mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116459585811044061 And since uutils is not Linux only, it can’t use these safer APIs directly, or at least not without writing more platform-specific code.