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		emanlin on Sept 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink o... 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.

techslave on Sept 26, 2019 [–]

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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