Sticky bit?
Jonathan I. Kamens
jik at athena.mit.edu
Wed Mar 20 10:49:55 AEST 1991
In article <6704 at navy28.UUCP>, seda at motcid.UUCP (Joseph W. Seda) writes:
|> What does the stick bit do? I could look through all the man pages and probably
|> still not find all the details. Can someone help?
On a file? A directory? Is it executable or not? What kind of Unix are
you using?
On my system (4.3BSD-based), there is a sticky(8) man page that describes in
detail what the sticky bit does.
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