An invincible file

[Tyler Aviss]

The rest of the docs in chattr specifically mention flags for
directories, etc, and certainly some flags (+x) are treated
differently if applied upon files VS directories. Thus, I had assumed
that immutable did not apply to directories.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:11:52AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>> Got it... the directory itself was somehow immutable. I didn't even
>> realize this was possible, as chattr(1) only mentions files having the
>> immutable attribute.
>
> Which part of "everything is a file" in the unix philosophy did you miss? :)
>
> Makes sense actually.  To delete a file or rename it is a change to the
> contents of the directory file.  Hadn't thought of it though.
>
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