Implementing fully immutable files
Implementing fully immutable files
Posted Apr 22, 2019 19:44 UTC (Mon) by wahern (subscriber, #37304)In reply to: Implementing fully immutable files by wahern
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Correction: I meant, normally when exploding a tarball you want it to overwrite files without write permission bits because you're replacing the whole tree, but sometimes you don't and setting a file immutable makes the untar operation blow up. It's a fail-safe. There's some cleaning up to do but less than if that critical file was removed.