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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: sticky bit
Message-ID: <259@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 17:04:47 GMT
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Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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dwc@homxc.ATT.COM (Malaclypse the Elder) wrote:
> one note: i would prefer to see such information kept in
> the a.out header instead of a file bit since there is really
> much more information that would be useful and the file system
> could probably use that bit for other things.

But setting the sticky bit on Unix is restricted to super-users for a reason,
and there's no way to prevent a user from setting a bit *inside* his file.

If the file system needs more bits, it's welcome to them.  After all, it has
sole and exclusive control over the format of an inode.
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsof!w-colinp)