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Description of problem: I like using 'chattr +i filename' to protect a file from being modified by anything. Imagine my surprise when I found that the file was still growing after I had typed that command. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-PAE-2.6.34.7-61.fc13.i686.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ping -n 8.8.8.8 > filename & 2. chattr +i filename 3. ls -l filename; sleep 2; ls -l filename 4. lsattr filename Actual results: The file keeps growing, even though the immutable bit is on. Expected results: The file should become frozen, any program currently writing to it should get an error, probably EACCES, EPERM, EDQUOT, EIO, EROFS, or ENOSPC, depending on what's most commonly checked for by programs that actually do error checking on writes. Additional info: I suppose the current behaviour may be desired, simply because that's the way permissions have always worked: typing 'chmod a-w filename' had no effect on programs that were already writing to the file, for example.
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