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Comment by 12_throw_away

14 days ago

So yeah, their implementation of chmod checked if a path was pointing to the root of the filesystem with 'if file == Path::new("/")'.

How the f** did this sub-amateur slop end up in a big-name linux distribution? We've de-professionalized software engineering to such a degree that people don't even know what baseline competent software looks like anymore

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