> On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > No, just make it do
> >
> > {l,f,}chflags({name,fd,name}, u32 *old, u32 *new);
> >
> > and then you can read and write the flags with just one system call. I do
> > not want to extend on stat() yet again.
>
> OK. But there is one but - we definitely have flags on ext2, ufs and
[...]
Alexander, if you are working in the area, could you remove the
restriction that a block device can't be made immutable? I doubt anyone
has any objections to the principle of an immutable block dev?
Chris
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