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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Sticky bit?
Keywords: sticky, directory
Message-ID: <6949@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 02:05:36 GMT
References: <gilbertd.669645050@p4.cs.man.ac.uk> <1991Mar24.223426.10401@cs.umu.se> <1991Mar27.150435.13311@holos0.uucp>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>My description of the sticky bit is the only one applicable to "Unix"
>in general.

Depends on your definition of "'Unix' in general."  It doesn't apply to
SunOS 4.x, and possibly not to S5R4 as well; SunOS 4.x doesn't interpret
the sticky bit as meaning "keep a swap image around" (it's not
necessarily an "image" in any case; pages paged in directly from the
file, and not copied-on-a-write, do *not* have copies in swap space).