Trond Myklebust: > The NFS protocol has no way to convey to the client that the inode is label= > ed as immutable on the server. The NFSv4.1 =93retention_hold=94 mechanism d= > escribed in RFC5661 comes close, and could possibly be used, but it is not = > implemented for now. > > Note also that file immutability is not a POSIX concept, and EPERM is conse= > quently not listed as one of the POSIX sanctioned return values for access(= > ): http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/access.html Ok. Thanx for the explanation. J. R. Okajima -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html