> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Chris Evans wrote:
>
> > IMHO, immutable support is fine as it is - as Alan has rightly said,
> > giving users the opportunity to set some variant of immutable on their
> > files, is dangerous.
>
> Why? user-immutable can be removed by user and by root. If the
Because programs running as root assume
open("blah", O_RDWR)
write(blah)
will work. They do NOT expect to have to
open("blah", O_RDWR)
if (-EPERM)
chflags("blah", immutable off)
open("blah", O_RDWR)
Chris
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