From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 27 22:26:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA25107 for current-outgoing; Tue, 27 May 1997 22:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (root@main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA25100; Tue, 27 May 1997 22:26:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (3199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA09012; Wed, 28 May 1997 01:26:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA08681; Wed, 28 May 1997 01:26:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 01:26:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: "M.R.Murphy" cc: beattie@stt3.com, julian@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: NEW FEATURE. BSD file NOUNLINK flag. RFC.. will commit unless.... In-Reply-To: <199705280348.UAA03107@meerkat.mole.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 May 1997, M.R.Murphy wrote: [NOUNLINK] > > To your comment.. This is no more 'annoying' than the 'IMMUTIBLE' flag > > that presently does even more.. > > > > personally I think it complements the other flags quite well. > > > > comments? > > > [snip] > I would say, though, that if you want special tools for a special > appliance, then build the special tools, and restrict the general > tools. It's an application policy problem, not a system problem. > > Hrrrumph. Feeping creaturism. Hmm... What if they were considered `levels' of IMMUTIBLE. ie. IMMUTIBLE_1, IMMUTIBLE_2, etc. :)