On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 14:57 +0200, Joerg Barfurth wrote: > From Solaris man-pages: > > chmod(1): > [...] Only the super-user may > set the sticky bit on a non-directory file. [...]
> So neither does this bit have no effect, nor can it be set by ordinary > users. > > I'd assume other Unixes with a common ancestor would behave similarly. Right, although the effect changes between systems. In V7 Unix the sticky bit on an executable meant it was kept in physical memory and never swapped out; at one point on SunOS the sticky bit enabled read-ahead for text files I think, too. In either case it changed the behaviour of the virtual memory system, and hence could only be set by root. With the introduction of demand paging, Unix systems reinterpreted the sticky bit, but all differently. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://wwwfromoldbooks.org/ XML Blog: http://people.w3.org/~liam/blog/ Liam on the Web at http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
