Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
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 : : 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

what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Paul Miller
I know this is a really stupid question.. but what is the sticky bit? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Peter Iannarelli
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

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread TENCC01.LEWIS01
Forwarded with Changes --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at ~AMSCCSSW Date: 10/1/97 9:57AM To: James M. Lewis at ~TENCCT1 *To: debian-user@lists.debian.org at ~AMSCCSSW Subject: Re: what is the sticky bit

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Anders Hammarquist
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

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
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

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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

Re: what is the sticky bit?

1997-10-01 Thread john
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