Re: chattr feature available?

[Mark Burgess]

On  1 Sep, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> 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.
> 



OK - note that there is something like that for FreeBSD which
has some extra fileattributes. (Look in src/filedir.c)

M

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