23 Jan
2008
23 Jan
'08
11:44 a.m.
2008/1/22, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On Jan 22, 2008 6:09 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
It's a quite stupid protection to do in coreutils. On FreeBSD, the / directory has a flag so that you can't change or delete the / itself. They also do this on special system files that shouldn't be overwritten (that's why you can't tar up a FreeBSD system and unpack it on a random other box).
Agreed. The FreeBSD way is much more sane, though I guess we could model it with immutable files in a way
Hmm, that would perhaps work for Arch (where one can assume capable users), but personally i like coreutils' approach better. A disadvantage with immutable files is that *the rest* would be removed... mvg, Guus