The man page for chmod(1) in GNU coreutils 5.3.0 states: "When the sticky bit is set on a directory, files in that directory may be unlinked or renamed only by root or their owner."
You should add to this: "or by the owner of the directory". Here is the corresponding bit of the man page for stat(2) on a Linux system: The `sticky' bit (S_ISVTX) on a directory means that a file in that directory can be renamed or deleted only by the owner of the file, by the owner of the directory, and by a privileged process. Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils