Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> writes:
> I think he wanted to use sticky/sgid/suid because they get removed when the
> file is changed

no they don't.

>                 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(?)

they should, at least with v4.

DES
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