odd message when Repairing Permissions in Disk Utility
Shawn Erickson
shawnce at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 15:06:15 PST 2008
On Feb 4, 2008 2:47 PM, Gregg Dinse <dinse at niehs.nih.gov> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, is there some good reason why Apple would use
> both /private and /Private for directory names? Why not be
> consistent and stick with one or the other?
I believe /private is what Apple consistently uses (comes from NeXT OS
days). It looks like someone (Apple or 3rd party) may have typed in
/Private by mistake in an install package or script.
-Shawn
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