I had a long conversation with @requiem and he helped me be OK with admitting this to myself and others.

I think #POSIX sucks and we could do better if we moved on from it.

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I tend to agree.

For example, POSIX filesystem access control makes it very hard to use file hierarchies that are modifiable by someone you don't trust (c.f. the protected_symlinks sysctl).

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