File Flags in directories

Jordi Carrillo jordilin at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 05:39:56 PDT 2006


In the FreeBSD handbook when it talks about the file flags permissions it
says:
"These flags add an additional level of security and control over files, but
not directories."
Well, I am able to put file flags in directories as well.
If I do:
mkdir curric
chflags uchange curric
It works well and then I can't modify the contents of the directory. So it
works flawlessly. Anybody knows that everything in Unix is a file, so flags
can be applied to anything. So, the handbook is wrong in this aspect, isn't
it?

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