Re: XATTR option does NOT work for chattr attributes

"Vincent Callanan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Note that this will not work as you did not use the right 
> > arhive format.
>
> > I did just verify that your test case works on Linux.
>
> Joerg,
>
> I did try -Hexustar (which I assumed was the default anyway) but no joy!
> I am using Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper). What Linux distro/kernel version are
> you using?
> Are there any star compile dependencies specific to preserving immutable
> flag?

The archive you send in your mail was defective but it did _not_ include
file flags.

Many Linux distributions are known to come with defective include files
but this is flagged by "configure". Other Linux distributions come with 
_missing_ include files. Overall, Linux is as bad a Microsoft when it is
used to develop or compile software as Many files that are needed in order
to create linux specific features by default are missing or defective.

If star could be compiled _with_ file flag support, _and_ if you did use the
right archive format, you will see:

22 SCHILY.fflags=schg

in the extended POSIX.1-2001 attributes for the "immutable" file.

Jörg

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