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Re:Casually removing root files by gpvos on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:23PM (#15030362)
chattr appears to be a Linuxism, but TFA doesn't mention that.
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Re:Casually removing root files by quazeekotl on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:36PM (#15030501)
BSDs also have a command that does the same thing, but its called chflags

https://man.openbsd.org/chflags.1

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chflags

http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?chflags

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Re:Casually removing root files by jwilk on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:00PM (#15032052)
AFIACS, chattr(1) can be compiled on BSDs too; and then it uses the chflags(2) syscall.
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