Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756869AbWKVAVt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:21:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756886AbWKVAVt (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:21:49 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:17610 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756869AbWKVAVs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:21:48 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: James Hunt Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ext2/3/4: enable "undeletable" file attribute. Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:21:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, sct@redhat.com References: <20061121221632.GA12422@localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20061121221632.GA12422@localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611220121.33522.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:c48f057754fc1b1a557605ab9fa6da41 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 16 On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:16, James Hunt wrote: > ... it's not honoured by the kernel: > > ? > rm /tmp/wibble ? ? ? ? ? ? # yikes! this should fail!! > I always thought of the term 'undeletable' to mean that you can undelete the file (restore it) after it has been deleted. Of course, this is not implemented either, but it means something very different than what your patch does. Arnd <>< - 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/