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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by techslave on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:30AM (#21071114)
eh? this is a mac bug. any software could trigger it. just happens that keystone is maybe the only one to be so dumb as to modify a system dir. that doesn’t excuse the root cause which lies in mac os.
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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by 0xEFF on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:36AM (#21071766)
How is this a Mac bug? /var has been a symlink on OS X for nearly 20 years now. What business does a web browser have modifying /var?

The keystone team accepted this as a p0 bug.

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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by techslave on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:31PM (#21077619)
yeah i see the details now. i thought it was a permissions change from earlier description but now i see it is removal.

/ also shouldn’t be writable so it’s understandable how this wouldn’t have been caught. writable / is not sane and it’s unlikely you’d test that case.

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