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: 

    "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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