Re: chattr feature available?

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> (2003-09-01 09:33:27 BST):
> On  1 Sep, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> > Quoting Hans Deragon <hans@deragon.biz> (2003-08-29 16:31:43 BST):
> >> Greetings.
> >> 
> >>   Reading the documents and googling the web, I have found nothing
> >>   that suggest that chattr is supported within cfengine.  Since
> >> chattr is specific to the ext2 filesystem, I am not surprise.  But
> >> before I start hacking around with shellcommands: to call chattr, I
> >> amd asking if there is support for chattr commands with the copy:
> >> and files: commands.  So is there some chattr feature hidden within
> >> cfengine?
> > 
> > I'm certain it's not there already but if you want to implement it, I
> > suggest you look at the acl:: code. It seems to fit most neatly
> > there.
> 
> So what it chattr?

Extended attributes specifically for ext2 and ext3. Examples:
set/unset the immutable, append-only, transparent-compress flags.

Whilst they're not ACLs they seem to me to fit there best.

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