On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:16:24PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > It seems that symlinks return -ENOTSUP for lsattr, causing chattr -R > to spew errors. Why don't symlinks support attributes, and if not, > shouldn't chattr know this and suppress operating on symlinks instead > of spewing errors? The VFS layer doesn't pass ioctl's down to the file system layer for symlinks. Thinking about this, arguably the right answer is to allow chattr to function on symlinks, since it cloud be useful to make symlinks immutable. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
