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| author | helbig <helbig@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-12-26 12:26:43 +0000 |
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| committer | helbig <helbig@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-12-26 12:26:43 +0000 |
| commit | 92b43624f498f072e658112f1d1b612d4bf50710 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fd363bee7b8366721f9e1c5d07804c31ffd0152 | |
| parent | 7723a09feaa6424d9554c44a1ff692e259679ecd (diff) | |
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For regular files the sticky bit is ignored, but the user can still set it.
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man8/sticky.8 | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man8/sticky.8 b/share/man/man8/sticky.8 index 009f544..d86f3c2 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/sticky.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/sticky.8 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)sticky.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 -.\" $Id: sticky.8,v 1.2 1997/03/07 03:28:21 jmg Exp $ +.\" $Id: sticky.8,v 1.3 1997/08/17 00:15:46 steve Exp $ .\" .Dd June 5, 1993 .Dt STICKY 8 @@ -43,16 +43,13 @@ A special file mode, called the .Em sticky bit (mode S_ISVTX), is used to indicate special treatment -for shareable executable files and directories. +for directories. It is ignored for regular files. See .Xr chmod 2 or the file .Pa /usr/include/sys/stat.h for an explanation of file modes. -.Sh STICKY TEXT EXECUTABLE FILES -These are no longer supported and any attempt to create a sticky text -executable will fail on UFS-based filesystems. .Sh STICKY DIRECTORIES A directory whose `sticky bit' is set becomes an append-only directory, or, more accurately, |
