Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!gilbertd From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Sticky bit? Keywords: sticky, directory Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 12:30:50 GMT References: <6704@navy28.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Distribution: comp Lines: 17 In <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? As far as I'm aware what it does is do something like try and keep programs in memory -so that say you have 20 people using vi on a machine, it ould only hold 1 copy and also it would keep it in memory so its available immediatly Dave (I think I'm correct?) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dave Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - The MTBF of a piece of equipment - - G7FHJ@GB7NWP - is inversly proportional to its - ------------------------------------------- importance -