Question

File attributes are of major concern as compared to directory attributes while performing operations on file system.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was asked by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

My query is from Listing File and Directory Attributes in section Basic File Attributes of Unix

Answer 1

Correct answer is (b) False

Easy explanation: Directory attributes are of major concern as compared to file attributes when performing any operation on file system because files are a part of directory or we can say that files are stored under the directory in the directory tree. So if directory attributes does not allow us to perform a particular operation on the directory than that operation can never be performed on the file which is stored inside that directory.