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From: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: mtime changeable on immutable files (a bug, isn't it?)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:24:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <02032519245700.00785@marvin> (raw)

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You can touch(1) an immutable file, which changes its mtime. Since you can't
change the permission bits of the inode, you shouldn't be able to change the
mtime, correct?

I pointed this out in september of 1999, including a patch that fixes it.
I got no reply answering if this was correct behavior or a bug back then, I'd
appreciate a reply now.

(please CC any reply to me since I'm not on the list)

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             reply	other threads:[~2002-03-25 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-25 18:24 Thomas Habets [this message]
2002-03-26 19:26 ` mtime changeable on immutable files (a bug, isn't it?) Ragnar Hojland Espinosa

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