Sticky/sgid/suid bits safe on regular files?

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:38, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "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.

Oops, guess I'm used to using vi which does move/unlink - sorry!

> >                 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.

Ahh neat :)

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