[ale] ls command output

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

James,

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:22, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> drwxr-xr-x+   7 root     root           73 Oct 22 15:02 home
> 
> What does the "+" on the end of the permissions data mean? lsattr
> returns an error "lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading
> flags on //home"

	It means that there is "an alternative access method", whatever that
means.  That's an ANSI thing.  XFS has DMAPI, which may be it, but "info
ls" gives no further insight, and neither does the ls code from
fileutils-4.0 :-(.

-- 
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medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny

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