odd message when Repairing Permissions in Disk Utility

[Shawn Erickson]

On Feb 4, 2008 1:52 PM, Gregg Dinse <dinse at niehs.nih.gov> wrote:

> Is any of this a problem?  Do others see this?  Are /private and /
> Private the same thing?  If so, what should the permissions be on
> this directory?  If not, then why doesn't disk utility fix it?

HFS+ [1] is case preserving but case insensitive so /private and
/Private are equivalent at the file system level. Likely receipts
under /Library/Receipts have conflicting permission definitions and
differing case. The last permissions used are the "safer" of the two
so I don't see a real problem. In fact the latter permission change
may be coming from a hard coded definition for that directory as a
safety net to override a bogus receipt.

-Shawn

[1] <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html>