Odd Filesystem Behavior

Sat Mar 25 08:29:55 PST 2006

Kevin L. Kane wrote:
oh something else:
[...]
I think if i specify the / at the end of symlink it will actually
delete(or try to in this case) all sub folders if it can.  Is that
normal? and if it is, should that be the desired behavior, if its a ln
-s link shouldnt it only delete the link rather than the contents of
what its linking to?
I think that's expected.  adding a trailing / will force the resolution 
of the link.

On 3/25/06, Kevin L. Kane <kevin.kane at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm running 1.5.2 with all the changes to the FS system(BUF/IO?) stuff.

prometheus# ls -la
total 3
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:24 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Mar 25 10:14 ..
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Mar  2 16:03 empty
prometheus# chmod u+w empty/
chmod: empty/: Operation not permitted
prometheus# rm -rf empty/
recursively remove empty/? y
rm: empty/: Operation not permitted
prometheus# rmdir empty/
rmdir: empty/: Operation not permitted
prometheus# whoami
root
is it like this?

% ls -lo
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root    wheel   schg  512 Apr  3  2003 empty/
I was very surprised by my not being able to delete or modify the
perms on this file.  Also:
I bet you're dealing with a immutable directory.  see chflags(1).

cheers
  simon
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