On Aug 30, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Robert Latham wrote:
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:43:29PM -0500, Rob Ross wrote:
[catching up]
I've always thought that the immutable bit meant that the data can't
change; deleting is fine.
There's no POSIX standard for fs attributes right? So we're stuck
with whatever the man page chattr(1) claims:
I thought no standard meant we could do whatever we want. ;-)
-sam
"A file with the `i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be
deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and
no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser or a
process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or
clear this attribute."
==rob
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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF
Argonne National Lab, IL USA B29D F333 664A 4280 315B
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