[TUHS] The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat May 13 09:38:49 AEST 2017


On Fri, 12 May 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> So when we got back from dinner, I looked at the source to our system to see
> if I was right, and.... it had already been fixed! Here's the code:
> 
> 	if (xp->x_count!=1 || xp->x_iptr->i_mode&ISVTX)
> 		goto error;

Err, isn't that the sticky bit, not the setuid bit?

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