[Chicago] Weird Issue with Popen/chdir

[Brantley Harris]

Do we get to say "Muggles" in this sort of context now?  And should it
be capitalized?  I like it.

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Michael Tobis <mtobis at gmail.com> wrote:
> megatron:~ mt$ ls -l /etc
> lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root  admin  11 Feb 21  2008 /etc -> private/etc
>
> ===
>
> iow /etc is linked to /private/etc . They are the same place.
>
> This is a compromise for system robustness. Files under /private are
> invisible to Finder to prevent Muggles from noticing them and messing
> with things they're better off not knowing about.
>
> More a Mac question than a Python one.
>
> mt
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