On Tue, 13 May 2003, Paul Jarc wrote: > No, the file's metadata is stored in its own inode. But its > permission bits affect access only to its data, not to its metadata. > Metadata is always writable by the owner - otherwise you wouldn't be > able to restore your own write access after removing it.
Reminds me of a "bug" in the old Icon systems that the schools used in the early 80's or so. The immutable(+i) flag couldn't be removed, even by the superuser because then you'd be modifying the file, which wasn't allowed cause of the +i. So if a student did that on a file, it was there forever until the system was reinstalled. At least, this is what we were told, I suspect somehow the teacher was told this by someone who didn't understand how the +i was supposed to work. Mike