site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Thread-index: Acby0Z1u2+KSHV7EEduSwQANk0QgEg== Thread-topic: BSD Flags further User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 on 10/18/06 4:01 AM, Michael Smith at drivers@mu.org wrote:

On Oct 18, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:

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Can someone explain what the actual effect of setting each flag is, namely:

arch opaque nodump

These three have no significant meaning.

I actually read a discussion somewhere, where the user was saying that setting the opaque flag was supposed to help in some instances (sorry, I didn't quite follow what they were trying to do, and I can't find that thread anymore...) The only definition I've found so far is: The opaque flag will prevent a full union stack traversal on later lookups. I have absolutely no idea what this means.

Each of these three pairs comes in two variants; the 'u' version which permits the flag to be set and reset by the owner, or root, at runtime, and the 's' version which can be set at runtime, but cannot be cleared except in single-user mode.

How can I reboot into single-user mode to clear these files? Thanks again :) All My Best, Jeffrey _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com