I don't recall encountering the norway problem in the wild. Ansible has a pretty common issue with file permissions, because pretty much every numeric represen

I don't recall encountering the norway problem in the wild. Ansible has a pretty common issue with file permissions, because pretty much every numeric representation of a file mode is a valid number in YAML - and most of them are not what you want. Sure, we can open up a whole 'nother can of worms if we should be programming infrastructure provisioning in YAML, but it's what we have. Chef with Ruby had much more severe issues once people started to abuse it. Plus, ansible-lint flags that reliably.