sticky bit under UNIX 5.3

John Plocher plocher at sally.Sun.COM
Wed Feb 21 17:25:56 AEST 1990


+-- In <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?
+--

If I recall correctly (and I may not be...) it means that if possible,
leave this text image in core when it finishes, in the hopes that a
reload from disk will be avoided next time it is run...

If you run out of free memory, this region is one of the first to
get reclaimed when the revolution comes.

  -John



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