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		kg on Sept 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink o... Yeah. Pre-SIP OSes were affected too, so they literally just did not test this on any non-SIP version of OS X... or if they did they didn't notice that it was nuking /var. Fresh mac VM wiped after every test run and no 'did we just destroy the OS' smoke test?

compuguy on Sept 25, 2019 [–]

To be fair, none of the Pre-SIP macOS releases are supported by Apple anymore...

erichocean on Sept 25, 2019 | [–]

No, it's not fair. SIP can be disabled by the user in modern macOS releases.

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