sticky bit obsolete?

Jim Webb jrw at hropus.UUCP
Mon Aug 11 10:05:22 AEST 1986


> I don't think it's obsolete.  In a workstation environment with the bulk of
> the software residing on a remote fileserver, keeping the text of some
> commonly used programs in memory speeds loading and cuts down on network
                            ^^^^^^
> traffic.

The sticky bit does _not_ do this, I will assume you meant on the swap
device...
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