On Wednesday, October 31, 2018 10:14:40 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > Debian 9.1 with MATE installed from DVD set. > > Due a non-reproducible sequence of events, a binary executable was over > written by the contents of a man page in pure text format.
Just to (maybe?) help with the proper focus, was this a human error or something that seemed to happen without human intervention? > For unknown > reason, the resulting file was tagged as executable. > > A custom MATE launcher pointed the corrupted file. > When the launcher icon was clicked there was no response whatsoever. > Including *NO ERROR MESSAGE* > Is this a bug or a feature? > If a feature, why?
