Editing 981: Porn Folder
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| image = porn_folder.png | | image = porn_folder.png | ||
| titletext = Eww, gross, you modified link()? How could you enjoy abusing a filesystem like that? | | titletext = Eww, gross, you modified link()? How could you enjoy abusing a filesystem like that? | ||
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− | ==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). | + | 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, 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). It would seem that violating this taboo is what turns him on. |
− | + | link() 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== | + | == 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.] | :[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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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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