Anyone know what a "sticky bit" is actually used for? Anything? My (older) linux book says it will cause an executable file to remain in the swap area and thus make it load faster. It also says, though, that a permission flag will change to 't' or 'T' when the "sticky bit" is set, but that does not happen (using FC1). A follow-up question: if the "sticky bit" can be used as claimed, could it be helpful in getting things like Konqueror to open more quickly? I'm used to the snappy performance of Win2k on my older machine (with ample RAM) and it's frustrating waiting a few seconds every time I want to open a web browser or file management window.
