Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:28:58 -0400 From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us> To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> Cc: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, NetBSD Kernel <tech-kern@netbsd.org> Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API Message-ID: <199906271628.QAA22753@orchard.arlington.ma.us> In-Reply-To: Message from Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> of "Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:19:02 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906271154530.24019-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
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> Usage of ioctl() on Linux was a bad idea and it's going to be fixed. More > or less in the same direction, not exactly the same - 4.4 chflags() works > fine for UFS and leaves other filesystems to map what they can into the > UFS set. > Which is bogus - immutable is not a UFS attribute, it's VFS one. Well, I'd argue that Berkeley defined a bunch of VFS attributes, and then implemented them natively in UFS and LFS; other non-native filesystems have to map their concepts of other file attributes (e.g., dates, permissions, etc.,) into the native VFS concepts. - Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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