[wplug-bsd] chflags(1)

Daryl Clevenger cicero at speakeasy.net
Fri Sep 8 08:43:23 EDT 2006


Bill Moran wrote:
> Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> 
>> and so on.  There's no similar 
>> command on my Linux system, and indeed it looks like chflags(2) is a 
>> system call that is specific to BSD (the man page says it first appeared 
>> in BSD 4.4 -- I love BSD..  It's a reference library as well as an 
>> operating system.)
> 
> Really?  Odd that I never realized that chflags was a BSDism ...

Linux provides something similar via chattr(1), which I first 
encountered years ago in HP-UX and maybe Irix.

-- 
Daryl Clevenger


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