> this happens on 2.1.127, no time to check with 2.0.
> but i believe this shouldn't happen
> minitiger:# ls -l miniserver
> prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 16:10 miniserver
> minitiger:# lsattr miniserver
> lsattr 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> lsattr: Invalid argument While reading flags on miniserver
It should, given the way lsattr is designed: it uses an ioctl() to
access the flags, and ioctls work very differently on device files.
We are aware of the problem, and it is not yet too late to add a
separate flags syscall to 2.2 for this.
--Stephen
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