On Monday 05 January 2004 9:50 pm, Le Hong Boi wrote: > 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. Excellent! Thanks. That will teach me to get my info from a book from 1997/98!
