Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:36:20 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: lsattr: Invalid argument ? |
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:07:53 +0000, <dietmar.kling@usa.net> said:
> this happens on 2.1.127, no time to check with 2.0. > but i believe this shouldn't happen
> minitiger:# ls -l miniserver > prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 16:10 miniserver > minitiger:# lsattr miniserver > lsattr 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > lsattr: Invalid argument While reading flags on miniserver
It should, given the way lsattr is designed: it uses an ioctl() to access the flags, and ioctls work very differently on device files. We are aware of the problem, and it is not yet too late to add a separate flags syscall to 2.2 for this.
--Stephen
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