Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: sticky bit obsolete? Message-ID: <619@hropus.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Aug-86 20:05:22 EDT Article-I.D.: hropus.619 Posted: Sun Aug 10 20:05:22 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Aug-86 00:59:48 EDT References: <16@vianet.UUCP> <977@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 10 > I don't think it's obsolete. In a workstation environment with the bulk of > the software residing on a remote fileserver, keeping the text of some > commonly used programs in memory speeds loading and cuts down on network ^^^^^^ > traffic. The sticky bit does _not_ do this, I will assume you meant on the swap device... -- Jim Webb "Out of phase--get help" ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw