Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Improving the Unix API | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:28:58 -0400 | From | Bill Sommerfeld <> |
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> Usage of ioctl() on Linux was a bad idea and it's going to be fixed. More > or less in the same direction, not exactly the same - 4.4 chflags() works > fine for UFS and leaves other filesystems to map what they can into the > UFS set.
> Which is bogus - immutable is not a UFS attribute, it's VFS one.
Well, I'd argue that Berkeley defined a bunch of VFS attributes, and then implemented them natively in UFS and LFS; other non-native filesystems have to map their concepts of other file attributes (e.g., dates, permissions, etc.,) into the native VFS concepts.
- Bill
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