sticky bit under UNIX 5.3
Clayton Haapala
clay at uci.mn.org
Fri Mar 2 14:58:11 AEST 1990
In article <172 at paldn.UUCP> pwilcox at paldn.UUCP (Peter McLeod Wilcox) writes:
>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
Note that the SCO XENIX 386 manual says that the sticky bit has no effect
in a 386 paging environment. XENIX 386 is NOT a SysV kernel, of course, but
the arguments may apply. Probably not -- tho.
Sure wish my 4 Meg 386/ix box at work swapped as intelligently (and as little)
as my 3 Meg XENIX box at home! How's that for fuel for a flame fest? :-)
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