Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:45, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Clifton Royston <cliftonr at lava.net> writes:
> > I need to add a feature to an application where it can keep tabs on
> > whether one specific action has ever been taken on any given file, one
> > of possibly hundreds of thousands of a dynamically changing file set.
>
> man extattr

I think he wanted to use sticky/sgid/suid because they get removed when the 
file is changed so the application can go back and see if they've been 
changed. That doesn't happen to attributes.

Also, I don't think attributes work over NFS(?)

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