docs/156815: manpage should describe that chmod kicks t for file

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at gmail.com
Wed May 4 15:00:28 UTC 2011


The following reply was made to PR docs/156815; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, naruse at airemix.jp
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Subject: Re: docs/156815: manpage should describe that chmod kicks t for file
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 18:57:03 +0400

 From 4.4BSD as a historical reference:
 
      The ISVTX (the sticky bit) indicates to the system which executable files
      are shareable (the default) and the system maintains the program text of
      the files in the swap area. The sticky bit may only be set by the super
      user on shareable executable files.
 
 Though, it has long obsolete since then.
 
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