On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, David Ford wrote:
> I favor the idea Viro has about two level permissions for users and root. user
> level immutable can be removed by root at any time. priviledged immutable
> requires securelevel++ and by that requires reboot for removal of the flag. a
> -very- good thing.
We can do that easily on UFS (heck, the whole idea comes from 4.4BSD, so
guess which filesystem got these bits in flags layout), but for ext2 it
may require hunting for free bits. Ted, could you comment on that? We
would need two (preferably 4 - remember no-unlink ideas?) extra bits in
flags.
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