XPost: aus.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:52:13 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > It was then easy to recover from my little adventure. Now we know   
   > why that folder is "Access Denied" :-) I would never have guessed,   
   > that merely reading a file was dangerous. But that was a persistent   
   > shadow or the like.   
      
   I can’t imagine any comparable situation that could arise on Linux.   
      
   Even on pseudo-filesystems like sysfs, procfs or configs, *reading*   
   files is only ever a way to *obtain* information, never to *change*   
   any.   
      
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