Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: What does SUID, SGID and Sticky bits do on inappropriate files? Message-ID: <1990Dec29.050330.3390@NCoast.ORG> Date: 29 Dec 90 05:03:30 GMT References: <1990Dec28.234940.24202@odin.diku.dk> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) Followup-To: comp.unix.internals Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast) Lines: 19 As quoted from by bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein): +--------------- | The major speedup is/was/might-have-been due to the kernel being able | to pull an executable image from swap faster than from the file system | (no chasing of indirect blocks and so forth), and the possibility that | it was still in memory which was faster still. +--------------- Even if it wasn't in memory, V7 built new process images (execve()) on swap, so things were generally closer together that way. (But you already knew that, right? The only reason I'm a "guru" is that there aren't many real ones in northern Ohio.) ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY