Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262102AbVADV3a (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:29:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262130AbVADV3T (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:29:19 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([209.128.68.125]:53470 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262102AbVADV1g (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:27:36 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: [PATCH] get/set FAT filesystem attribute bits Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:26:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, which We do not fancy Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1104874014 15028 127.0.0.1 (4 Jan 2005 21:26:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:26:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 34 Followup to: By author: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > a = archive > > Should be the "dump" attribute > What dump attribute? > > h = hidden > > r = read only > > Should be reflected by the write bits. (Maybe there should be an option to > set the file mode for "read only" files to something different than > $rw_mode and not 0222.) It is. > > s = system > > Should be made "immutable", IMO This is a filesystem mount option, but it's really unpleasant to set it. It's one of those things that seems to make sense, but really doesn't. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/