On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
: Paul Miller wrote:
:
: I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit?
:
: -Paul
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: The sticky bit allows a UID to be the owner of a file while
: that file is being accessed by that user. In essence if a user
: opens
I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit?
-Paul
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Paul Miller wrote:
I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit?
-Paul
The sticky bit allows a UID to be the owner of a file while
that file is being accessed by that user. In essence if a user
opens a file, that user will be the owner of that file until
it is closed
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Date: 10/1/97 9:57AM
To: James M. Lewis at ~TENCCT1
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Subject: Re: what is the sticky bit
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit?
It's the tenth bit of the 12 bits of permission flags that are part of an inode
(or file, though they're not really interchangable). The bits are
Set uid, set gid, Sticky, read,write
Hi,
From TFM:
File: fileutils.info, Node: Mode Structure, Next: Symbolic Modes, Up: File p\
ermissions
Structure of File Permissions
=
[...]
A file's permissions have three special components, which affect only
executable files (programs) and, on some
Paul Miller wrote:
I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit?
The sticky bit overcomes a problem with file permissions in Unix.
Specifically, the ability to create/delete a file in a given directory
depends on the *directory permissions*. When the sticky bit is set
jim writes:
Way back when (in the olden days), unix would exec a program by copying
it into swap and then allowing the page mechanism to page it into memory
for execution.
Way, way back in the *really* olden days (that is, five years ago when I
was still running System III on my Onyx) there
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