Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 23:16, James Hunt wrote:
> > ... it's not honoured by the kernel:
> >
> > > rm /tmp/wibble # yikes! this should fail!!
>
> I always thought of the term 'undeletable' to mean that you can
> undelete the file (restore it) after it has been deleted. Of course,
> this is not implemented either, but it means something very different
> than what your patch does.
That is indeed what the documented (but not implemented) meaning is.
>From chattr(1):
| When a file with the ‘u’ attribute set is deleted, its contents
| are saved. This allows the user to ask for its undeletion.
So the meaning is undelete-able, not un-deletable.
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