sticky bit under UNIX 5.3

Peter McLeod Wilcox pwilcox at paldn.UUCP
Thu Feb 22 05:46:08 AEST 1990


In article <34 at cimcor.MN.ORG>, mike at cimcor.MN.ORG (Michael Grenier) writes:
>  What does setting the sticky bit mean in a UNIX 5.3 paging system?

The system will keep the code image in memory (physical or virtual) in
the expectation of running it again.  Note that paging in from swap space
should be a lot faster than loading the executable again.
-- 
Pete Wilcox		...gatech!nanovx!techwood!paldn!pwilcox



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