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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: set[ug]id and sticy bits on dir
Message-ID: <841@geac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 15:15:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: geac.841
Posted: Fri Jun 26 15:15:21 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 06:33:43 EDT
References: <1465@ncc.UUCP> <142700006@tiger.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown)
Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star
Lines: 14
Summary: can be simulated

In article <142700006@tiger.UUCP> rjd@tiger.UUCP quotes:
>> One system I maintained (running a Unisoft port) used the sticky bit
>> on a 777 directory to mean "anyone can create a file here, but only
>> the owner can delete it". This was used on /tmp and /usr/tmp.

One can simulate this by writing an "append" program and putting
a link in the applicable directory.  I published one last winter
in mod.sources, so it must be easy (:-))
 
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