Had to share this!

youngunix

youngunix

Hello All,

While doing some research about software auditing, I decided to inspect a file or two from Ubuntu's source code (just to learn more about the subject). Well, when I accessed the archive link, something funny and suspicious happened (the multiple "ubuntu" directories you see, are the result of clicking on the super-great-grand-ubuntu-directory and so on):
 
This outcome isnt too rare if the site uses symlinks to point to a folder further up than the folder containing the symlink.
Mostly it is to preserve legacy file paths so that some tools that download from a specific location do not break.
I agree it looks messy, but such is life ;)
 
kpedersen said:
This outcome isnt too rare if the site uses symlinks to point to a folder further up than the folder containing the symlink.
Mostly it is to preserve legacy file paths so that some tools that download from a specific location do not break.
I agree it looks messy, but such is life ;)
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Another day with Ubuntu I guess!
 
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