[Tfug] OK: Tell me About the T Bit

[Tim Ottinger]

Ah, the "sticky" bit. On files, it would cause the file to be held in swap.
On directories it restricted deletes or something like that.


On 1/6/07, Felix Tilley <fetilley at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Tell me about the T bit in Linux and other Unices.
>
> I have folklore only.
>
> I heard that in some unices, it keeps the program in
> RAM after it executes.
>
> In other unices, it keeps people from deleting files
> in /tmp, unless they own it.
>
> I have used HP-UX since 1993, and Linux since 2000.
>
> In HP-UX, I would run scripts to delete other
> users /tmp files all the time.  And it worked.  But,
> it would not delete directories in /tmp
>
>
>
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