2.0.3x Kernel feature - immutable and append only files
Joerg Friedrich wrote:
>And this is Alan Cox' note:
>http://lwn.net/1998/1217/2.0.36.html
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>Linux 2.0.36 fixed various security holes as does any stable OS update.
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> mmap on append only files has to be restricted to read maps.
What utilities (if any) support append only and immutable files? It doesn't
seem to be a feature of chmod and apropos produces nothing for immutable,
append or acl. There doesn't seem to be a chacl program anywhere.
Does the fileutils package need to be upgraded to support this feature?
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