Re: Odd Filesystem Behavior

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@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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