From: Dave Airlie (airlied at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Thu 06 Sep 2001 - 10:18:21 IST
> > > for once - unusual for me. It is "saved-text" (APUE, p.86). The flag
> > > for it is S_ISVTX ie SaVed-TeXt, even though the linux man page gives
> > > "sticky bit" as the description.
>
> hm. maybe. but version 6 refers to it as the sticky bit. my v5 image
> lacks man pages.
>
go on Kevin give in for once :-)...
from the Linux kernel we have
#define S_ISVTX 0001000
from Solaris 2.6
#define S_ISVTX 0001000
AIX 4.1
#define S_ISVTX 0001000
ah crap I can't get into by SunOS box :-P....
so it is the Saved text bit.. we just call it the sticky bit ...
Dave.
>
>
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
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