Re: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123)
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:23:53 +0100 (BST)
> And what will this do to code that's already built and shipping?
> It seems like promiscuously adding records to a published structure
> is a recipe for Bad Things.
>
> A chflags() call that takes a union of special flags would be a much
> less destructive way of adding the new functionality.
A variant of ioctl that doesn't follow device nodes to the device would
be an even simpler, even shorter and even more flexible solution to the
entire problem.
Alan
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