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Re: 2.0.3x Kernel feature - immutable and append only files



On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> Joerg Friedrich wrote:
>   >And this is Alan Cox' note:
>   >http://lwn.net/1998/1217/2.0.36.html
> ....
>   >Linux 2.0.36 fixed various security holes as does any stable OS update.
> ....
>   >       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?

chattr


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