Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: floating point exception status not inherited by exec
Message-ID: <3089@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 28 Mar 90 20:51:12 GMT
References: <795@s7.Morgan.COM> <240@samna.UUCP>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Hmm, I'm fairly sure that the "sticky bit" ordinarily refers to the bit in
>the file permissions which causes an executable to hang around in
>the swap space even when it's not in use.

I suspect he's referring to some other "sticky bit" (I seem to remember
that some schemes for doing floating-point arithmetic have something
called a "sticky bit").