

It could be improved. Sebastian Wick and Lennart Poettering made comments on how hard POSIX makes it hard to be secure. There are better APIs that try to be safer.
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
I don’t use openSUSE, but seeing their security reviews tempts me…