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On 03/09/2017 02:00 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> Under what circumstances? |
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> Seems like it is not possible to generate the above permission issue. |
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I can make them up all day... |
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* VENDOR_PATH=VENDORPN="" and we try to "rm -rf /" |
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* A hard drive error occurs. |
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* Bad memory crashes "rm". |
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* Somebody is running a recursive chmod on /var/tmp during emerge. |
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* The tarball contains something you don't expect and can't delete. |
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Ultimately, the die() is there to catch precisely all the things that |
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should never ("will never") happen. |
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