It could be improved. Sebastian Wick and Lennart Poettering made comments on how hard POSIX makes it to be secure. There are better APIs that try to be safer.

• https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/
• https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116459585811044061

And since uutils is not Linux only, it can’t use these safer APIs directly, or at least not without writing more platform-specific code.

Technically, Ubuntu is behind the curve not at the forefront on this. Universal Blue already includes quite a bit of AI stuff and Fedora has had drafted plans for a while.

Universal Blue: https://hachyderm.io/@jorge/116476967711636491