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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Sticky bit?
Keywords: sticky, directory
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Date: 20 Mar 91 00:49:55 GMT
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In article <6704@navy28.UUCP>, seda@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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