On Jan 22, 2008 6:09 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
