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bug#7590: 23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set?
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Sven Joachim |
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bug#7590: 23.2.90; Why the sticky bit is set? |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:36:15 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2.90 (gnu/linux) |
On 2010-12-08 12:43 +0100, Leo wrote:
> On OSX, build emacs with X11, I see the following:
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> 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