From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD 
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:20:54 -0500
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
> 
>     Alexander> Linux: -EPERM on open() 
> 
> Broken. (Iff they are modeling chflags(). Linux likes to make
> up its own random braindead behaviours though.)
> 
>     Alexander> FreeBSD: -EPERM on write() (open() succeeds).
> 
> Which is the correct behaviour (for chflags()).

== behaves the same way as 4.4BSD (system that introduced chflags()).
Whether said behaviour makes sense or not is a completely different
question, though...