On 2 March 2010 08:13, Fredrich Maney <fredrichmaney at gmail.com> wrote: > I haven't been really closely following this discussion, but I might > have a solution. > > A quick glance at 'man chmod(1)' will show that there is an unused bit > in the file mask, namely '7000'.
Isn't that just like having setuid + setgid + sticky ? sticky is no more used that much today on files (but it is on directories) -- I don't think we are "allowed" to play with it? Or you meant 8000? - Enrico