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Date:      Fri, 4 Oct 1996 09:30:49 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Immutable flags (was: Re: WARNING: botched ld.so commit! :-()
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.961004092808.20989B-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961003131028.2552E-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua>

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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Andrew Stesin wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Michael Hancock wrote:
> 
> > /kernel is marked immutable.  I'd like to be able to configure systems
> > such that you can't change the flags unless you are in single user mode
> > even if you're root.
> 
> 	May be the following is dumb...
> 
> 	What about an append-only / if securelevel > 0 ?
> 
> 	This way one can create a subtree of appendonly dirs
> 	with immutable files in them, thus an Immutable Subtree
> 	in the filesystem.  I think this might be very useful.

The functionality is fine as it is, it's just not exported to you when you
configure your kernel.




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