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.
Read in man page of chmod STICKY FILES On older Unix systems, the sticky bit caused executable files to be hoarded in swap space. This feature is not useful on modern VM sys- tems, and the Linux kernel ignores the sticky bit on files. Other ker- nels may use the sticky bit on files for system-defined purposes. On some systems, only the superuser can set the sticky bit on files.
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