Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:50:47 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 26 Jun 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> Alexander, if you are working in the area, could you remove the
> restriction that a block device can't be made immutable? I doubt anyone
> has any objections to the principle of an immutable block dev?

Yes, and it goes for free - with the current system the thing
doesn't work only because ioctls are naturally redirected to the device
driver - ext2fs doesn't see them.

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