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Date:      Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:07:23 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), dynamo@ime.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Not sure if you got it... 
Message-ID:  <199908301807.MAA04962@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:01:49 PDT." <199908301801.LAA66101@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> 
References:  <199908301801.LAA66101@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>  

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In message <199908301801.LAA66101@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes:
: > In message <199908300307.NAA06836@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans writes:
: > : >Is there a better way to turn off all the user flags then?
: > : 
: > : Turning them all off works of course:
: > : 
: > :     chflags dump,noopaque,nouappnd,nochg,nouunlnk
: > : 
: > : Is this better :-)?  It's not future-proof.  I'd prefer `chflags nouflags'.
: > 
: > Any objections to chflags nouflags going into the tree, modulo
: > problems with the actual code that does it?
: 
: I don't have a problem with that.
: 
: > 
: > I'd also like to have a new flag to rm.  -F.  One -F will be
: > 	chflags nouflags foo ; rm -f foo
: > while two -F will be
: > 	chflags 0 foo ; rm -f foo
: 
: I have a problem with this, it means updating 1 more chunk of code
: should the set of items in uflags change.  

I was going to define something like UF_USERFLAGS and SF_SYSFLAGS as
well...

Warner


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