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		theptip on Oct 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: El Capitan and Homebrew There is a standard: http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2015/pr-worms-digest-plastics-09.... This is from RedHat. Not implemented by everyone, but modern OSes (e.g. CoreOS) seem to follow the patterns. CoreOS also do everything in their power to prevent you from mounting /usr as writeable. Perhaps that doesn't pass your bar for 'real' though since it's not globally implemented ;)

duskwuff on Oct 1, 2015 [–]

I think that's the wrong link? (It's to a press release from Stanford's engineering department about plastic-eating worms...)

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