From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 1 16:22:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13016 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:22:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ican.net (ican.net [198.133.36.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12985 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:22:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate.ican.net(really [198.133.36.2]) by ican.net via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:22:09 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1996-Jul-10) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gate.ican.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA16488 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:21:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from cabal.io.org(10.1.6.2) by gate.ican.net via smap (V1.3) id sma016486; Fri Nov 1 19:21:13 1996 Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by cabal.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA06458 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:21:34 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: cabal.io.org: taob owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:21:33 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Effect of UF_APPEND/SF_APPEND on file modes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Shouldn't I be able to chown/chmod a file with the UF_APPEND or SF_APPEND flag set? I'm getting EPERM on those operations. I can delete the file just fine. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"