Unprivileged user can't set sticky bit on a file; why?

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

Nate Eldredge wrote:

> I came across this when trying to rsync some files which had the sticky 
> bit set on the remote side.  (It's the historical Unix archive from 
> tuhs.org; the files in question are part of an unpacked V7 UNIX 
> installation, for which the sticky bit of course had meaning. :-) )  
> It's annoying that this makes rsync fail; it messes up my mirroring script.

You can ask rsync to change file attributes on the fly with the --chmod 
option. Just my 2c.

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