Peter Weilbacher wrote: >That's the 't' mode, without it you can remove everything. I have never seen a mail >dir setup with 't' and I never found a good explanation for it, but at least it seems >to work like that. > 't' for programs (e.g. /bin/sh) prevents them from being unloaded from memory (although the code pages may still be swapped out). 't' for directories is comparatively new and as you point out stops you from deleting files that you don't have access to. Another obvious use for 't' is for your /tmp or equivalent.
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