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mrtesthahyesterday at 12:35 PM1 replyview on HN

macOS has always had these chflags attributes, by the way, long before System Integrity Protection existed. Changing or removing the system-immutable/append-only flags required booting into single user mode. Even the macOS installer application itself was unable to clear them otherwise.


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spauldoyesterday at 4:36 PM

That's not surprising given MacOS' lineage.