[Tfug] OK: Tell me About the T Bit
Felix Tilley
fetilley at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 6 19:19:22 MST 2007
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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