Sticky bit?

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <6704 at navy28.UUCP>, seda at motcid.UUCP (Joseph W. Seda) writes:
|> What does the stick bit do?  I could look through all the man pages and probably
|> still not find all the details.  Can someone help?

  On a file?  A directory?  Is it executable or not?  What kind of Unix are
you using?

  On my system (4.3BSD-based), there is a sticky(8) man page that describes in
detail what the sticky bit does.

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