At the 2022 sambaXP conference,
Jeremy Allison gave a talk titled “The UNIX Filesystem API is
profoundly broken: What to do about it?”. LWN regulars may recall hints of
these talks in a recent comment
thread. He started his talk with the problems that symbolic links
(“symlinks”)
cause for application developers, then discussed how the solutions to
the problems posed by symlinks led to substantial increases in the
complexity of the APIs involved in working with pathnames.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The trouble with symbolic links