Editing 981: Porn Folder

{{comic
| number    = 981
| date      = November 23, 2011
| title     = Porn Folder
| image     = porn_folder.png
| titletext = Eww, gross, you modified link()? How could you enjoy abusing a filesystem like that?
| imagesize =
}}

== Explanation ==
In this comic, [[Cueball]] seems to have found a porn folder. However, it contains a directory loop, set up by a person off-screen. It is possible to actually do this, and it would seem that the difficulty of doing it turns him on.

== Transcript ==
:[A person sits at a desk, looking at a laptop screen with one hand on his chin.]
:Person: So I thought I found your porn folder, in calendar/backup/PORN
: --
:Person #2 (off screen): Don't open that!

:[A wider shot of the person looking at the laptop.]
:Person #1: But it contains a bunch more folders, filled with more folders, and then... after 20 levels, somehow I'm back at the main folder?
:Person #2 (off screen): It's, uh, well hidden.

:[The person has turned around in the chair, now with the laptop in his lap.]
:Person #1: I think there's no actual porn here. - You're just turned on by filesystems.
:Person #2 (off screen): It's a hardlinked directory loop -- so taboo!
:Person #1: Now I feel dirty sharing a drive with you.

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@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 | image     = porn_folder.png
 | titletext = Eww, gross, you modified link()? How could you enjoy abusing a filesystem like that?
+| imagesize =
 }}
-==Explanation==
+== Explanation ==
-[[Cueball]] seems to have found a porn folder. However, it contains a directory loop, set up by a person off-screen. It is possible to actually do this, but it is widely regarded as a very bad idea, as it can break the system in not-so-obvious ways (mostly by causing seemingly-trivial operations to infinite loop). The implication is that the folder does not need to contain pornographic images because the folder ''is'' the porn—its violation of the taboo against looping is something the off-screen character finds erotic.
+In this comic, [[Cueball]] seems to have found a porn folder. However, it contains a directory loop, set up by a person off-screen. It is possible to actually do this, and it would seem that the difficulty of doing it turns him on.
-<code>link()</code> is the Linux system call to create a hard link. In an unmodified Linux kernel, it will not allow directory hard links for this exact reason; the person who set up the porn folder apparently "forced" Linux to comply, with all of the sexual analogies that suggests.
+== Transcript ==
+:[A person sits at a desk, looking at a laptop screen with one hand on his chin.]
-==Transcript==
+:Person: So I thought I found your porn folder, in calendar/backup/PORN
-:[Cueball sits at a desk, looking at a laptop screen with one hand on his chin.]
+: --
-:Cueball: So I thought I found your porn folder, in calendar/backup/PORN/
+:Person #2 (off screen): Don't open that!
-:Friend (off screen): Don't open that!
 :[A wider shot of the person looking at the laptop.]
-:Cueball: But it contains a bunch more folders, filled with more folders, and then... after 20 levels, somehow I'm back at the main folder?
+:Person #1: But it contains a bunch more folders, filled with more folders, and then... after 20 levels, somehow I'm back at the main folder?
-:Friend (off screen): It's, uh, well hidden.
+:Person #2 (off screen): It's, uh, well hidden.
-:[Cueball has turned around in the chair, now with the laptop in his lap.]
+:[The person has turned around in the chair, now with the laptop in his lap.]
-:Cueball: I think there's no actual porn here.
+:Person #1: I think there's no actual porn here. - You're just turned on by filesystems.
-:Cueball: You're just turned on by filesystems.
+:Person #2 (off screen): It's a hardlinked directory loop -- so taboo!
-:Friend (off screen): It's a hardlinked directory loop - so taboo!
+:Person #1: Now I feel dirty sharing a drive with you.
-:Cueball: Now I feel dirty sharing a drive with you.
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 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
-[[Category:Computers]]
-[[Category:Recursion]]
-[[Category:Linux]]
-[[Category:Language]]