Re: question about Ext2/3 append-only attributes

[Robert Love]

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


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