From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Xin Zhao <uszhaoxin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about Ext2/3 append-only attributes
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 18:24:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115159074.6734.42.camel@betsy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ae3c1405050313585b1921ba@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 16:58 -0400, Xin Zhao wrote:
> I read some specification says that if append-only is set to a
> directory, you can only create or modify files in that directory, but
> no delete.
I suspect that your interpretation of the specification is wrong.
+a says that files can only be opened in append mode--O_APPEND. It is
very specific as to what it allows.
Perhaps you want the sticky bit, +t, set on the directory?
Robert Love
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-03 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-03 20:58 question about Ext2/3 append-only attributes Xin Zhao
2005-05-03 22:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-03 22:24 ` Robert Love [this message]
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