Re: Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:04:36 -0400 Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 1, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > Unless I'm mistaken, at one time turning on the sticky bit on a binary > > would > > tell the kernel not to swap out that program when it was running (or > > somtehing

Re: Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

2004-06-01 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 1, 2004, at 10:08 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Unless I'm mistaken, at one time turning on the sticky bit on a binary would tell the kernel not to swap out that program when it was running (or somtehing similar ... I think it used to mean "kernel must never swap out this data") That's right, alth

Whatever happened to the sticky bit (for files)

2004-06-01 Thread Bill Moran
This may be better suited for hackers@, but I thought I'd bring it up here to get perspective. I was reading this article: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3202 and related articles that it links to, and thinking - why did the sticky bit go away? Unless I'm mistaken, at one time turning on the stick