[TUHS] Who's behind the UNIX filesystem permission

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Sat Aug 3 01:01:22 AEST 2019


On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 10:58 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>     Minor nit; in V6 at least (not sure about later), the 'sticky' bit was
> a
> separate bit from SUID and SGID. (When set on a pure/split object file, it
> told the OS to retain the text image on the swap device even when no active
> process was using it. Hence the name...)
>
Indeed, nice catch, Noel.
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