From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: 7590@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7590: 23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:36:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyioo08g.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m11v5so5gl.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:43:22 +0000")
On 2010-12-08 12:43 +0100, Leo wrote:
> On OSX, build emacs with X11, I see the following:
>
> Victoria:bin admin$ ls -lh emacs*
> -rwxr-xr-t 2 admin staff 13M May 23 2010 emacs
> -rwxr-xr-t 2 admin staff 13M May 23 2010 emacs-23.2
The toplevel Makefile sets this up, search for "chmod 1755".
> Wikipedia says it's a NOP and according to sticky(8) it has no effect on
> OSX because the kernel knows better than you about stuff like that now.
I guess this holds for almost every halfway modern system. On
GNU/Linux, the sticky bit has always been ignored for non-directories.
Sven
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2010-12-08 11:43 bug#7590: 23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set? Leo
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